What we learned; Monday 10 June
And that’s a wrap. Here’s what we were talking about today:
Senator Jacqui Lambie has little time for Daniel Andrews’ King’s birthday honour, saying politicians being awarded for doing their job was “beyond” her.
The federal government has unveiled its national anti-vaping advertising campaign.
Queensland’s budget week is under way, with the premier, Steven Miles, touting a cost-of-living budget.
Labor minister Anne Aly will attend an international conference “on the urgent humanitarian crisis in Gaza”, on behalf of the foreign minister, Penny Wong.
The US consulate in Sydney was vandalised with a sledgehammer – an act that NSW premier Chris Minns said was “reprehensible”.
A statue of King George V in Melbourne was found vandalised on the King’s birthday holiday.
And supermarkets have responded to avian influenza by limiting the number of eggs shoppers can buy.
Thank you for joining us.
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Tim Ayres says Coalition’s nuclear policy ‘too silly for words’
Labor senator Tim Ayres has branded the Coalition’s nuclear energy policy “too silly for words”.
Speaking with the ABC’s Afternoon Briefing, he said the Liberal party and the National party were being led by “crass base politics” and “can’t see beyond their own internal politics.”
That’s why we’ve ended up with this too-silly-for-words nuclear proposition. It’s an economic cul-de-sac for Australia. Bad idea … Projects not measured in millions of dollars of cost, but tens of billions of dollars worth of cost. Projects that spin out not for a few years, but for decades.
This is nonsense. They know it. And they’ll be judged for what is a not-serious energy policy.
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