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Dutton’s nuclear thuggery : Comments
By Jim Green, published 24/6/2024Former Liberal prime minister Malcolm Turnbull famously described Coalition leader Peter Dutton as a thug'. That description appears particularly apt in Dutton’s nuclear power plans.
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I personally have nothing for or against nuclear energy, but if this thing finally breaks down the commonwealth of Australia, then at least one good thing would come out of it.
And BTW, Anne Twomey is wrong in stating that states could not prevent the Commonwealth establishing a nuclear power plant: I just cannot conceive of Australian soldiers, many of them from the same state which they are ordered to attack, agreeing to fire on citizens and local police to get them out of the site, then fortifying and guarding the place for many years while the plant is being built against constant sabotage by the local state and citizens. Further, even if they succeed, the local state can simply cut off the power lines coming out from that plant. At the bottom line, nobody can force citizens to use electricity.