Peter Dutton wanted a plebiscite on marriage equality. Why not hold another on his nuclear fantasy?

‘Far from indulging the opposition’s nuclear fantasy, a plebiscite is the best way to make people wake up to it.’‘Far from indulging the opposition’s nuclear fantasy, a plebiscite is the best way to make people wake up to it.’The plebiscite was divisive, an obstacle to marriage equality which could have been dealt with by a free parliamentary vote, and which many queer people felt was a referendum on their dignity.

Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundupNuclear power in Australia is so far off in the future it will require coal power plants to have their life extended, exacerbating global heating. The shadow energy minister, Ted O’Brien, admitted as much last week when he said the Coalition did not want coal plants retired “prematurely”.

Already the Coalition is mooting the possibility of “incentives” for communities that host them, some sugar to help the radioactive medicine go down, precisely because it knows it would be too unpopular otherwise.

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