"If the DAP is biased towards R&D then it's the way we should be going, as I read Bjorn's ideas."
Sounds like subsidies to me,which Im against.
The best use of abbotts three billion DAP plan,would be to build thorium power stations,particularly in the region of Victoria,thus making brown coal power plants obsolete.
Those companies who own brown coal utilities could by them from the government,at a premium of course.
