While Liberal Party leader Peter Dutton’s nuclear fantasies have stolen most of the headlines, the Albanese government’s recent gas plan is equally horrendous, offering no way forward on climate change.
The renewed push for nuclear power is not only about domestic energy policy. It is about the establishment of an entire nuclear industry and a possible future of nuclear weapons.
According to Britain’s Economist magazine, a weekly diary of establishment opinion, the “political centre has been dented but it still holds”. Yet parties of the centre lost to the far right in the continent’s biggest countries.
