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"The post-election joy didn’t last long for the newly victorious Labor
government, who were quick to snap at the Greens for their perceived losses
(some real, some exaggerated).
But whatever the mixed emotions among the Labor party, the Greens and the
various ‘teal’ or teal-adjacent independent candidates, there is no way they’re
down in the same pits as the Liberal-National coalition opposition party,
who’ve suffered their worst election loss in living memory.
When Peter Dutton was confident that he was going to win the 2025 federal
election, he said “I’m very happy for the election to be a referendum on
energy, on nuclear, on power prices, on lights going out, on who has a
sustainable pathway for our country going forward”.
Notably, it was actually Chris Bowen who first suggested the election was to be
a ‘referendum on nuclear‘. Several media outlets christened it, in June 2024,
the “nuclear election“.
The Coalition’s nuclear plan was never sincere. The technology was presented a
distant mirage, designed to distract from the party’s real plan to jam a
crowbar in the wheels of the accelerating Australian renewable energy industry
so that coal and gas clunkers can burn through megatonnes of fuel for many,
many more years than current projections and scenarios envision.
Nuclear power – and specifically small modular reactors – are expensive and
slow enough to never really end up existing, but also quasi-feasible enough to
be believable excuses. As I’ve written elsewhere, they sit perfectly in the
‘greenwashing habitable zone’."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
