Peter Dutton has broken every single rule when it comes to unveiling radical policy as opposition leader, tearing up the script and gambling with his party's chances at the next election with his nuclear policy.
One senior Liberal suggested the delay in releasing the figures was to rob Labor of the ability to question the economic basis of the policy — you can't pull and pick apart numbers that haven't been provided. Conventional politics would involve the unveiling of modelling and robust independent accounting to explain the cost for taxpayers.
But on the question of the rights of communities to raise objections, the Nationals were at odds yesterday. If we accept that community opposition to the idea of nuclear is softening — although we can't be sure of how much — then the fight shifts to cost. "There would seem to be a big gap here and it's not clear how the Opposition is planning to fill it."An unusual part of the Opposition's proposal is that the nuclear plants would government-owned and operated.
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