11 June

It’s difficult to see this as anything except an act of political suicide. There was a time in Oz when opposing climate change action won you votes. That had already passed at the last election, where the Liberals lost some of their blue ribbon seats because of their climate denialism. Many blue ribbon Liberals in those seats will be furious, the Teal vote should go up even further. It’s a desperate act from a desperate man. Plus what he’s offering is vastly more expensive, involves putting nuclear reactors in peoples’ communities, and will take decades to get beyond a brain fart, if it ever does.