That is overly cynical. It was a genuine effort to get the nuclear industry going in Australia; the Liberals have been angling towards it for a while. * Austra

That is overly cynical. It was a genuine effort to get the nuclear industry going in Australia; the Liberals have been angling towards it for a while. * Australia is one of the most anti-nuclear-power countries in the world. At this point we're one of the few advanced countries left that doesn't have a nuclear reactor connected to the power grid. We're behind the curve on this and we should be looking at building up local experience in nuclear power. * The right wing of Australia has been cautiously pro-nuclear since the Howard government and do little probes from time to time to see if the left have calmed down about advanced technology enough to build one yet. * There is a lot of overlap between people who think the climate change people are not genuine and the pro-nuclear people ... but that is because the pro nuclear people have been pointing out the obvious solution from 1980 to 2020 to air pollution issues has been nuclear power and the green parties are one of the most vocal lobbies against it. There are obvious financial risks to nuclear power, but Australia should at least enter the 20th century and have it on the table as an option. Our current policy is stupid. > tl;dr at least some parts of the pro-nuclear-power lobby is actually just trying to end efforts to minimise climate change damage. That is ridiculous; there is no such group. Australia doesn't even cause any climate change damage to minimise - accepting that as the goal, our contribution to global emissions rounds to zero, and we have no leadership on any useful technologies because our manufacturing sector has been knocked out of competition (arguably our terrible energy policies were one of the big contributors to this, although wages were a decisive factor).