So reads the title of Tim Blair's latest Tele column, along with the subtitle:
Led by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Labor's opposition to nuclear energy is infantile, free of facts, ignorant of history and based on panic in previous eras
Labor, the 'party of science and the party of the future' quickly jettisons science when it comes to nuclear power:
Albo's the 2022 parliamentary equivalent of 40-year-old "nuclear free zone" signs in stupid inner-city councils. Except he uses more words and makes even less sense.
Recently in parliament Albo described the LNP as reactionaries who love reactors. So hilarious is the wordplay he's now used it twice. He then reminded members of when Scomo bought a lump of coal into the House, before advising they don't do the same with a lump of uranium as 'it won't end well' Hilarity on the Labor side ensued.
But Albanese was wrong. Handling raw uranium isn't particularly dangerous at all. All any uranium-toucher need do is was their hands afterwards. And that's not because of radiation. It's because uranium is a chemical-loaded heavy metal.
Funny that the 'party of science' was unaware of this basic fact. As for reactor-loving reactionaries:
"Nuclear power would be a win for the environment," Bob Hawke declared in 2016. "A win for the global environment and a win for Australia."
Albo's socialist mate, Jeremy Corbyn ran on a pro-nuclear platform for Labor during the 2019 UK election.
"Climate change is so catastrophic and imminent that only nuclear power can save us," Tim Flannery announced in 2006, before returning without explanation to the anti-nuke church in 2007. The wimp.
And former Extinction Rebellion member Zion Lights will shortly arrive in Australia from the UK to continue her informed and illumination pro-nuclear campaign.
