Forget nuclear: would Peter Dutton oppose a plan to cut bills and address the climate crisis?

‘Politicians generally back rooftop solar for a simple reason: their constituents love it.’ Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

A missing element from much of the debate about whether Australia should embrace nuclear power is that – unless the Labor rank-and-file have an extraordinary change of heart – the issue is already dead on arrival.

John Howard and Scott Morrison knew the score on this. Unless there is bipartisan support, a nuclear industry has virtually no chance of being developed. And as things stand there is no chance of the ALP changing its position.