Remember when the LNP were in government and Peter Dutton set up a GoFundMe for Queensland flood relief?
Of course, there’s nothing wrong with doing something like that. I mean, it’s a good thing, isn’t it, that he gave people the opportunity to help support those who were flood victims because he knew that many people did want that… Ok, maybe not his colleagues in the LNP who think that people should stand on their own two feet and not rely on others for support and if people didn’t want to be flood victims why don’t they just live somewhere that doesn’t flood? After all, Scott “Plans For Your Good” Morrison would undoubtedly argue that God helps those who aren’t wicked so if you didn’t have enough sense to build an ark when you were living amongst all that wickedness, you’d should have Noahed better…
Anyway, I know that there’s been some concern about the cost of building nuclear in Australia and there’s been even more concern that the Liberals have gone all socialist and suggested that the taxpayer should build and own nuclear facilities because – unlike everything Telstra and everything else they’ve sold off over the past few decades – there’s a good reason for that. Exactly what the good reason is will – like the cost, the amount of power the seven reactors will put into the system, their plans for who will build it, the timeline for which is built when and just about everything apart from the location – be released in Due Course… a phrase I’m sure that you’ve heard already, but in case you haven’t, I suspect that you’ll hear it before the week is out.
Some people have suggested that the reason is actually that private industry wouldn’t touch nuclear because it’s uneconomic but that’s not the reason. When it comes to something that government actually wants to provide, then the economics becomes simple: You tell them that you’ll walk away and leave them holding the baby unless they fork out more cash and so you have a cost blowout, a delay and a healthy bottom line. In return the government of the day gets a healthy donation to their political party of choice…
A number of things have been asserted by Dutton and the Duds:
- A large number of people support nuclear.
- The proposed sites are just fine with the people in the area where they’re supposed to go.
- They’ll make things cheaper.
Some GoFundMe campaigns offer you things like a free ticket to the show or a copy of the book, so maybe Peter could put his skills to work and come up with a GoFundMe campaign where those of us who fund the nuclear plants could get our power directly from there, while those who don’t would have to rely on those “expensive” renewables and batteries. I mean, if the plants are going to create thousands of jobs in the electorates where they’re going, doesn’t it seem only fair that these places should put up a large percentage of the money, given the benefits that will accrue to them in the form of economic benefits like jobs and cheaper housing given the suggestion that house prices will fall in those areas?
Whatever, it’s worth a thought… which is more than most of the policies that Peter Dutton has announced have been given.
On another matter, Simon Birmingham was extremely critical of the PM for phoning Julian Assange. From what I can gather the people on his side of politics never thought that Assange was worth any sort of phone call while they were in power – including one to the United States to ask what was going on – so why should he be given one now? And it’s not like Assange being returned to Australia was any great achievement because if he’d been worth a phone call they would have made one and got him some sort of a deal years ago, but they had more important things to do, like work on an energy policy…
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