Given the party most of the time has knives out for the renewable energy industry you're right IMO to say many were just cynical of this latest nuclear power

Given the party most of the time has knives out for the renewable energy industry you're right IMO to say many were just cynical of this latest nuclear power agenda - simply a means to prolong fossil carbon usage within the power grid. As for the role Trumpism played - long before the election was called there was an uneasiness in regard to the LNP when trying to channel Trump and similar apparently popular policies. Despite being hugely popular with a certain smaller crowd here, ultimately it didn't work out quite like they expected. None had anything near the artful dodger ability to back peddle or redirect attention when it started to come apart. As for nuclear being a city country divide, most fly in fly out mine workers my parts are city / town based. I think if such a divide exists, it might be more that town and city folk have a better understanding / familiarity of how much any proposed projected costings for a project differs considerably with the final cost, annually there's more often a multitude of notable projects around towns and cities, where as in the country areas, notable projects are generally singular events and more likely local population would attribute budget blow outs on particular companies that tendered for the project and BSed. The country folk are also probably too trusting believing the particular candidate will go against their party and won't support nuclear.