In case you were wondering what Nationals leader David Littleproud has been up to – he has been trying to reinvigorate nuclear power. He spoke to Brisbane radio 4BC this morning where he claims that the issue with nuclear was the Coalition didn’t sell it properly.

Now this is all ridiculous because by the time the Coalition is anywhere near power it will be the 2030s when all of this debate is done and dusted. None of this matters. At all. But it is keeping the Coalition at the beck and call of its junior party the Nationals who are pretty much at the capacity of the seats they could ever win (there are maybe two more – Calare and Bendigo if the circumstances were right) which is so far from government it is not worth talking about.

Yet here we are.

What will keep the Nationals in the Coalition?

Littleproud:

Well they have got on board because they accepted our terms. The four policy positions that
we weren’t prepared to walk away from which was nuclear, the Regional Australia Future Fund,
reform to the Universal Service Obligation to protect our mobile phone towers so that we can
use them in an hour of need in the bush, and divestiture powers on supermarkets.