The zero-emissions power source adds up on some fronts, but there’s still a whiff of crazy about the whole push.
Already a subscriber?No one in the ALP will say it publicly, but there is a broad expectation, and in some cases hope, that the Queensland Labor government will lose the state election on October 26.
In this vein, there will be some interest in Queensland on Saturday with concurrent local government elections, and the byelections for the state seats of Ipswich West and Inala, the latter of which was held by Palaszczuk. As it stands, Queensland is the least of Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s worries, but there is a growing concern among the backbench and beyond that that could change should he stray too far from the core messages of cost of living and housing. And not just in Queensland.
The technology exists and has long been used elsewhere, Australia has huge supplies of uranium, it is reliable and emissions-free, it can plug into existing transmission infrastructure, and the argument against waste has been mitigated by Labor’s embrace of nuclear-powered submarines under AUKUS and the requisite need for a high-level waste dump.
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