Everything in Australia now is about ideology and name calling. Policies and what is best for the country doesn't get a look in.

“Expert bodies”? More like dead bodies.

I think when some small nuclear plants are up and running in the northern hemisphere things will happen fast. Currently about 60% of our electricity comes from burning coal with most plants to close before 2040. Bizarrely taxpayers may pay for coal plant repairs, a kind of reverse carbon tax. Wind and solar need a 4-5X build and recent events suggest we need a month of energy storage at mind boggling cost. Gas is getting expensive with southern cities about to run out. Short of recession I'm not sure what the non-nuclear options are.

I have made a suggestion on a public forum that small nuclear be considered for the Spencer Gulf SA desalination plant, as opposed to a 'hydrogen power station'. This morning's ABC news confirms a $5bn prepayment to the UK for work on submarine reactors. When the panic button hits things could move more quickly.

Of course nuclear energy in Australia is a political issue! What else can it be? Nuclear energy is banned in Australia because a government made that decision. The question now is, does that decision of 1998 properly reflect public opinion today. Much has changed in those 26 years, primarily the new need to reduce carbon emissions. The means adopted to enable that have enjoyed popular and hence political support. Politics again. Will renewables do the job? Governments think so. Politics yet again. It's wall to wall politics. Wishing it wasn't is pointless. But only two political decisions matter. How best can emissions reduction be achieved? And will it be worth it?

Electricity produced by wind was, in the last quarter, the lowest since 2017.

Albanese is inordinately pleased to announce a moratorium on mining the rich Jabiluka uranium deposit. By my calcs the mine could sell $36bn of yellowcake over its life and save 127bn tonnes of CO2 if it displaces coal, here or abroad. Albanese tells us he is concerned about CO2 but doesn't blink an eyelid when approving new coal or gas projects. The money could also help with things like housing. I suggest he is not the full quid.

Albanese is not even the full shilling, let alone part of 20 of them.

I don't know where the rube and his mates think Australia's income will come from if we stop digging up minerals and exporting them.

We manufacture almost nothing; we import food; the so called education 'export' is really money earned here by students - who, by the way are so poor that they are raiding the volunteer food banks.

Taxation I presume, and that will drop off: unemployment is rising, with all those immigrants and foreign students vying for jobs with the locals, as more businesses close down because of expensive electricity, red tape and government interference.

Only voters can solve the problems by NOT voting for the duopoly or the Greens, or the Teals.