DURING MY FRUSTRATING tenure as a Senator in the Parliament of this fair country, I often marvelled at the technical ignorance of the people occupying the seats of power. Many of them had worked their way up through the political system, starting as staffers learning the trade and then getting pre-selection in a winnable position on the ballot.
There were very few physicists in that bunch. Reality to them is what they can spin, not what is.
So we have Opposition Leader Peter Dutton, an ex-cop, framing an election campaign around nuclear power about which he and his advisors know little or nothing. Maybe it was just reflex action, as IA's Michelle Pini pointed out recently in an excellent editorial.
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