CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact
Peter Dutton’s war on getting anything done is starting to become predictable this week, as the Leader Of The Opposition reveals his plan to keep the lights on for the next thirty years while his proposed Nuclear Power plants get built.
During day 3 of the exciting Brisbane test, the Coalition has quietly revealed that they want to dramatically increase gas supply, which will be pulled from our earth by private companies that donate to the Liberal Party, who then sell it overseas without paying royalties, before Australia buys it back at a higher price.
This comes after Peter Dutton spent the last year doing nothing but telling voters how unfairly privileged Aboriginal people are, and how the current government are secretly Islamic terrorist sympathisers.
But today’s clarification that the Coalition plans to revisit Scott Morrison’s moronic ‘gas-led recovery’ tells voters a few more things.
Namely, they have no interest in winning back the 6 blue-ribbon seats that they lost to Teal independents in the 2022 Federal Election that nearly euthanised their party forever.
It seems Australia’s wealthiest electorates know enough about science to know that the environment is being damaged by the Liberal party’s unquenchable desire to burn fossil fuels. They also know enough about money to know that Australia has all but squandered our natural resources on keeping the lobbyists of tax-dodging multinational corporations happy.
What this announcement also tells us is that the half-page explainer that the Coalition government released several months ago to outline a 30-year roll-out for a half trillion dollar nuclear energy plan is actually not something they ever intended on building.
It’s merely a distraction to delay the inevitable renewable transition, buying fossil fuel barons another decade until they’ve dug up every last lump of coal and fracked every paddock for gas.
But Peter Dutton continues to talk about this genius alternative energy plan that he has no interest in ever rolling out, and the major Australian news mastheads continue to talk about Peter Dutton talking about this genius alternative energy plan.
Whenever questions related to the economic feasibility or environmental safety of nuclear power arise, Peter Dutton will boldly announce something rather unrelated, like his vow to never stand in front of the Indigenous flag as Prime Minister.
