ttbn,

I don't think too many Australians will ever look at Andrew Forrest the same way again after he virtually shoved Greg Hunt off the podium a few weeks ago so that his CCP mate could deliver a message from Xi. Except of course for the likes of the pro-China camp viz LOUDmouth, etc.

Correction, Transmission line losses 11% and distribution losses 64% and as a total combined, 75%. I worked for a power authority as a science assistant and one of my kids is an electrician. Other than that, have earned a living as both a chemical engineer and an assayer.

And in the latter capacity, handled radioactive materials daily.

The antidevelopment brigade, the greens, the fossil fuel industry and big pharma are all in line standing against nuclear power and thorium in particular, for sound financial reasons and those reasons alone, save the fearmongering greens for idealogical antidevelopment reasons. Even now, even if the obstinance costs any chance of any economic recovery of any moment.

Except when it starts to cost them in all the ways they in their simpleton ideology, never ever considered?

Apart from that, there are those politicians who are owned by this or that vested interest and will promise the world to get elected and or retain power and just kick the energy can down the road and obfuscate as they need to to avoid real reform (tax, energy, cooperative capitalism) for as long as they can.

And get back to business as usual and the political bun fight/jockeying for power as the most important thing and way more important than the recovery or political integrity/authenticity!

The U.S. has it would seem, lifted their insane ban on thorium R+D!?

But not here by our "LEADERS"?
Alan B.

Mr. Opinion,

These days it's hard to know if Australians think about anything much, but I think what Forrest did to Hunt was appallingly ignorant - even treacherous - and his later attempt to justify himself marked him down as yobbo ocker character for all time.

ttbn,

Everyone knows that Forrest knew exactly what he was doing and the reason he did it.

Please don't lower yourself by trying to find excuses for what he did.

Onya ttbn.

To Alan B. I am still waiting for you to give us the names of the Australians who you allege massacred aborigines, and the dates and locations these supposed "massacres" by "Australians" occurred. If you can't do that, then withdraw your monstrous allegation against the your own people, and think twice before making statements based more upon your wishful thinking than facts.

I know how you think. As an educated person, you think that you and your educated Brahmin caste are God's gift to the human race. You have decided that nationalism and patriotism are for proles and idiots so you and your lot have invented the concept of Internationalism as your ideal. You are not "Australians" or any other nationality, (unless you find it convenient at any time) but "citizens of the world." To display your class identity, you constantly find fault with your own people, culture, and civilisation. And if you can't find anything wrong with it, you invent it by looking at any historical situation which can be credibly misconstrued by embellishing the facts with sinister motives and gross exaggerations. And all to display your class separation from The Great Unwashed and the middle class establishment.

Future historians will marvel at how a certain section of the world's most advanced civilisation, constantly dumped upon that civilisation, causing untold damage to that civilisation, and all to pander to their own inflated ego's

Those who malign the employers of many should prove that they can actually manage on their own without other peoples' contributions.