If it's peaceful it's peaceful. When I check the dictionary under "peaceful" it doesn't say anything about business.

Nuclear power's already much more expensive than every other mainstream option, and the gap is widening every year. In twenty years time it's going to be so much more expensive it'll be ridiculous. No one's going to want to buy power for several times the cost of all the other options.

The idea's not only dumb - it's completely commercially unviable.

It just seems dumb at this point. Nuclear energy is so incredibly expensive compared to the alternatives. Most countries are moving away from it due to it being commercially unviable. And yet here we are with the NLP acting like it's the best thing since sliced bread.

I know they see it as their duty to push the opposite of whatever Labor's doing but they don't seem to care that it's just a bad idea.

"We're already doing very little but it's WAY TOO MUCH!"

At what point do Labor realise "Are we the baddies?"

More time to do what exactly? Soft plastics are effectively unrecyclable. There are no commercial scale recycling plants in Australia which can recycle soft plastics. And even if we did build them the depolymerisation process which soft plastics require takes so much energy it'd be more environmentally sound to landfill it anyway.

The whole thing's a mess and really the only solution is to stop producing as much soft plastics.

Among scientists there wasn't any significant doubt twenty years ago. It was just spin doctors trying to pretend otherwise.

Why not start them off in the way you mean to continue? It's not like there are any significant downsides.

Compulsory is such a good system. It doesn't take long. It's on a weekend so it's not inconvenient. You get a sausage at the sausage sizzle and you do your vote. There's a real holiday atmosphere. And it produces much more representative results. Brexit wouldn't have happened if they had compulsory voting so there's no denying it's valuable.

The producer who was lumped with this was horrified and handed in his resignation the next day. I don't think he was happy with the situation.

It's a fair point but my intention was to bracket the possible returns.

More than an inconvenience - they cost hundreds of millions in additional road wear every year which we all pay for.