Labor campaign spokesperson, Jason Clare (it is one of his favourite jobs) held a press conference to give his best material on the Coalition’s nuclear ‘plan’.

Nuclear has absolutely tanked this election as a policy. Dutton hasn’t been anywhere near a proposed nuclear site in 34 days and that tells you that the research the Coalition has is that not only is nuclear not a vote winner, it could potentially COST them more support if Dutton was seen to promote it during the election.

This has given Jason Clare some time to come up with his own version of ‘Ten Things I hate about Nu-clear’ (old rom com fans will understand that reference:

Clare:

We’ve got two days to go, and here are ten things that Peter Dutton doesn’t want you to know about his nuclear scheme.
 
One, they’ll cost $600 billion.
 
Two, they won’t turn a light on for decades.
 
Three, even when they do turn on, they’ll only produce four per cent of the energy that Australia needs.
 
Four, they’ll push up your power bills right across the country.
 
Five, there’s not even enough water at the sites that Peter Dutton has identified to run them.
 
Six, you’ll have to pay billions of dollars to manage the nuclear waste that they produce.
 
Seven, the waste will fill football fields, not the can of coke that Peter Dutton talked about.
 
Eight, Peter Dutton wants to use experimental nuclear reactors that no one else is using commercially around the world.
 
Nine, they’ll cause a $4 trillion hit to the Australian economy over the decades to come.
 
And ten, he’ll cut health and education to pay for them.
 
That’s why Peter Dutton isn’t talking about this in the last few days of this election, and that’s why he isn’t visiting the seven sites where he wants to put these nuclear reactors.