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Wil's avatar

While the ALP is providing obvious reasons not to vote for it, it's wild to me that there's as much competition in the 2PP vote as there is, at least as reported by Poll Bludger. Nuclear power is a non-starter for most of the electorate, we will hear a lot more about it in the run up to the next election. Here's hoping for a few more independents to give the ALP the minority government they deserve, and we never have to hear about nuclear power for Australia ever again.

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Another line of enquiry. Who would build and operate the new nuclear power stations? I could not find any Australian university offering a Bachelors degree course in nuclear engineering - there are several in nuclear medicine, which is irrelevant. Two universities, UNSW and ANU, offer Masters courses in the field. I could not find how many degrees are awarded each year, but it's not likely to be many. A significant national nuclear reactor programme would require hundreds of nuclear engineers. In practice they would have to be Chinese or Indian. Is this what Dutton's culture-war voters are looking for?

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