Regardless of the rights or wrongs of Greens policies, the current Australian electoral system denies them the right to represent the portion of Australian voters who vote for them.

That portion of Australian voters who believe in Greens policies have zilch prospect of achieving a place in the House of Representatives, but a certain representation in the Senate, because it is based on proportional representation.

Don't build a traditional nuclear power plant, with 300 atmospheres of contained pressure, on a fault line! Absolutely agree! I'd never ever propose we do that!

But am okay with the idea of a shipping container sized transportable reactor, operating at normal atmospheric pressure, being placed wherever convenient. If the entirely passive safety, design features, prevented a melt down or the hydrogen explosions that wrecked Fukushima!

Melt downs don't occur in a molten slat reactor. If the internals rupture for any reason and there is a leak? The cooling medium simply solidifies, thereby containing the nuclear material in purpose built containment vessel! Where it cools and solidifies even if shaken like an oversized milk shake!

Xenon expansion inside entirely inflexible solid state fuel rods, probably implicated in the Chernobyl disaster!?

What I would instead advocate is, walk away safe, molten salt, thorium. And given their very different passive safety design features! Able to be located virtually anywhere, including on top of a fault line! But particularly, when few other options present!

I believe that one could completely abandon such a power plant for up to 120 days, without compromising safety or power supply!

And where such a fault line, were to shake rattle and roll? The passive safety design features, would cause the reactor to simply shut down!

Only ignorance of the actual facts breeds fear!

And where ignorance and fear dominate, dogma and ideology not only replace both knowledge based reason and logic, but in the case of too many of our green devotees, rule them as slaves!

Suggest you read, who benefits from climate change for more.
Alan B.

Correction and apologies. Who will benefit etc, should read, who will pay for the benefits of climate change?

Have a good read and persist to the bottom of the page please! But particularly if informed by green politics!
Cheers, Alan.

"...the need for Greens members to think very hard...."

Now you're not being reasonable!

DC: "...the need for Greens members to think very hard...."

Greens don't think. They do what they are told to do by their Socialist Masters.