Here's the thing. Decarbonising the economy doesn't have to equate to tanking it!

It's the bloody-minded obsession with coal gas and oil that's the problem for both parties, if for different party political reasons?

Climate change denialists tantamount to flat earther conviction? Given both simply ignore inconvenient truths and incontrovertible evidence!

Claiming that an increase of 1.4C is nothing much to worry about? The climate change denialist equivalent of claiming tobacco as benign or asbestos did no harm or was not carcinogenic?

That said, if we would decarbonise the economy without tanking it? We need to transition to nuclear power! And without foreign money or ownership! But rather, fund MSR thorium projects off-budget and then set the leger straight via income earnings! Very doable when 3 cents PKWH is around 200+% profit!

And the capital required for the building phase, (free money) available by accepting other folks nuclear waste in return for annual millions or even billions!?

And that waste in MSR technology, simply unspent fuel that still retains as much as 90% as recoverable free fuel/energy! The trick here is to keep out of foreign hands and foreign control! And done by funding and facilitating Australian co-ops! And as such, every one dollar of taxpayer money invested in the proposed paradigm returns 2.5.

Moreover, this model makes every one dollar do the work of at least seven via well known economic flow on factors! And given we exclude foreign investment and ownership that money stays here in the local economy, beavering away, until it exhausts!

And by then in an economy at least 7 times larger than at present, replete with a booming manufacturing sector and self-reliant, self-sufficiency like we've never ever had!

There's no downside here, just win-win!
Alan B.

Most amusing, never takes long for you to put the MSR angle on things. Unfortunately Alan B, you are playing the game and like most with a vested interest in this debate, you only see it as an opportunity to promote/float your own " hobbyhorse" boat... just like the profiteers, carbon credit entrepreneurs and the purveyors of all the subsidized renewable scheme. Mean while the rich and famous will prosper while the working class must pay through stifling energy coast rises, and the impoverished 1 billion third world souls will remain without energy supplies.

This KKK scam is getting to the point when all the promises and lies will start to hurt people, and act as a deflection for all the real crisis in resource misuse, particularly land, water forests.

If the coalition want to win the next election!? They need to remove the self-placed embargo on nuclear power!

This would be clever strategy given it would wedge labor between the voter 57% of who are now in favour and the obdurate (anti-nuclear) greens, who would die in a ditch first! And the anti-nuclear element inside labor!

It could even result in a split inside labor and divorce left and right factions? That would then expose a secretly, massively divided labor to the voter!

Moreover, it could cost the nats seats in the bush that could go to country libs or independents? Meaning the tail that wags the dog, national party would shrink to a troublesome flea in its ear? And the end of a divisive and demanding tomato head as a recycled leader?

Don't continue to be afraid of nuclear, but use it for the economy and in the political bun fight sure to emerge when it is proposed, as it should be! Any proposal can remain just that, indefinitely?
Alan B.

AJ. please engage brain before putting mouth into gear or words I didn't utter into my mouth! My proposal put the energy sector into numerous and competing for business, locally-owned energy co-ops!
And as history shows, co-ops were the only private enterprise, free-market business model that survived the Great depression largely intact!

Moreover, with MSR thorium deployed and in cooperative capitalist's hands, energy prices would and must come down to well below what is or was ever doable for coal! End of story!

You need to read prize-winning investigative Author and science writer Richard Martin's Thorium, Super fuel, subtitled, green energy and Professor Robert Hargrave's Thorium, cheaper than coal. And listen to Thorium in five minutes by NASA scientist and nuclear technologist, Kirk Sorensen for staters, before you start defaming or going the verbal!
Alan B.

Obviously we have a bunch of politicians on Oz who are very week at the knees, but are not very bright.

Both sides have fallen for the net zero scam, the libs bowing to international pressure, & Labor succumb to the Greens demands. This is down to total gutlessness, as I can't believe that either think the idea is feasible, or even desirable.

However the Morrison government have another strike against them, their handling of the Covid great vaccination scam. It is tantamount to murder to open us up to international travel while depending on the proven incapable so called vaccines to keep the infection rate down.

To then totally ban the proven effective treatment offered by Ivemectin should open those responsible to a charge of premeditated murder.

I wonder if Morrison will be able to find another major mistake to make while in Glasgow, to make it 3 strikes against him & his mob. I'm sorry to say Scot, telling the French where to put Turnbulls subs lost it's brownie points when you decided to build them in South Australia, so you will need some very large tricks to pull out of your hat to survive this lot of mistakes.

Dearest Alan B, stop reading into every thing that the whole world is against Nuclear Power. I for one have supported and studied since the 1980's to reduce the wastage of coal/oil/wood etc which are far to valuable to burn. YES the libs should support it, BUT you saying that Nuclear will meet the Climate cultist needs is a waste of time... They hate it! Don't be like the liberals Alan, stand up for nuclear ( your obvious passion) and don't try and align it with the climate change cultists!