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Dutton’s nuclear dream promises delays, cost blowouts and government debt

So long, small modular reactors — you’ve been ditched by the Coalition in favour of old-fashioned nukes and their staggeringly expensive electricity.

Crikey

Dutton’s nuclear push a ‘dumb idea’ and decades too late

‘It doesn’t make economic sense. It doesn’t make energy sense. It doesn’t make political sense.’

Crikey

EVs are still too expensive for most Australians – so why are some carmakers and the Coalition standing in the way?

We are buying more electric and plug-in hybrid cars – 8.5% of all new sales last year – and no one’s weekend has ended. But that’s barely half of the global sales proportion

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Tesla slams Australian auto lobby

Tesla has accused Australia’s main auto lobby group of making false emissions policy claims, houses in some capitals are overvalued by more than a third, and some West Australians are waiting more than 200 days for disability support.

Crikey

Afternoon Update: Matildas coach says he was blindsided by Kerr charge; PM dismisses push for ICC to investigate Australia’s role in Gaza; and NBN to boost speeds

Matildas coach Tony Gustavsson says he was blindsided by an allegation of racially aggravated harassment made against Sam Kerr

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Talk of nuclear power plant sites ‘conjecture’, says Liberal MP amid internal division on Dutton’s policy

Rowan Ramsey says overturning ban on nuclear first is the ‘most logical thing’ to do as opposition leader prepares to nominate up to six locations

The Guardian - AU

Opposition reshuffles shadow ministry after underwhelming Dunkley byelection result

There have been internal calls for the Coalition to announce more policy in the lead-up to the next election

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Libs select ‘another bloke’ for Cook

Simon Kennedy has been chosen as the Liberal candidate for the Cook by-election, Anthony Albanese announces a $2 billion green energy fund, and Andrew Laming will be forced to pay back parliamentary travel expenses.

Crikey

Coalition flags expanding super for housing policy amid increase in house prices

Michael Sukkar says policy may need to be revised amid increase in housing prices but the ‘broad strokes’ would remain the same

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Dutton needs a Plan B. It involves going where few Liberals have gone before

The Dunkley by-election result suggests Peter Dutton needs to find some policies. The problem for the Coalition is that’s never been its wheelhouse.

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Dan Tehan condemns ‘big Australia’ policy but won’t reveal Coalition’s immigration plan

Shadow immigration minister wants ‘better Australia’ but refuses to say what level of migration Coalition would pursue in government

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Dunkley shows the Liberal party’s ‘more of the same’ is not a path to government

Labor cannot afford to be complacent but if Dutton can’t win a seat after 13 interest rate rises then maybe the strategy needs a rethink?

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Peter Dutton’s pre-Dunkley detainee scare blew up, but cost of living is the real electoral dynamite

The opposition leader’s line of attack in question time came unstuck, but it was an irresponsible ploy all the same

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Afternoon Update: Meta to stop paying Australian publishers for news; Linda White dies; and the best LGBTQ+ shows ever made

Current contracts with publishers that expire this year will not be renewed by technology giant

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Peter Dutton doubles down on immigration attacks despite Victoria police clearing detainee of assault charges

Deputy leader Sussan Ley refuses to delete tweet claiming ‘Victorian women being assaulted by foreign criminals’

Crikey

Secretive ‘No’ consultants received taxpayer cash

A secretive consultancy firm behind the No campaign invoiced several senators for taxpayer money, Sky News goes off at ‘woke’ AI, and the ‘long-Covid’ effects of early super withdrawal.

The Guardian - AU

Morning Mail: secretive firm behind Coalition messaging, NZ vape ban defiance, shooting near Gaza aid trucks

FOI reveals $135,000 in public money to secretive firm to help rightwing campaigns; New Zealand exporter vows to continue e-cigarette trade

The Guardian - AU

Secretive firm behind voice no campaign billed taxpayers almost $135,000 via Coalition MPs, documents show

Exclusive: Whitestone Strategic, which has close ties to rightwing lobby group Advance, was paid to craft messaging on topics such as vaccine mandates and renewable energy

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Assault charges to be dropped against man released from indefinite detention hours after Dutton question time attack

Police say CCTV footage indicates another man, not the 44-year-old former detainee, involved in alleged sexual assault in Melbourne

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This is what happens when an uncosted Coalition thought-bubble on nuclear power is presented as a concrete proposal

Anyone reading the Australian’s Newspoll survey might think there was an actual proposal in place to build small modular nuclear reactors around Australia – except there isn’t

Crikey

Advance’s tactics in Dunkley herald a new, nastier brand of politics

The far-right campaigners’ huge spend in the Dunkley by-election implies US-style electoral warfare is being trialled by the disintegrating right.

AAP

Calls for Closing the Gap to be 'above politics'

With only four of the 19 Closing the Gap targets on track to be met, a range of senators put forward different ideas on how best to address Indigenous inequity.

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Former NSW government accused of ‘pork barrelling at public’s expense’ after scathing audit

The $5bn post-pandemic spending program ‘not informed by robust research or analysis’ auditor general finds

Crikey

Independent MP Helen Haines has a plan to stamp out pork-barrelling. Would it work?

Rorting scandals keep happening because those in power believe channelling money to marginal and government electorates will help them win elections.

Crikey

Palmer battles jab mandates — and wins

Clive Palmer successfully funded a challenge against Queensland’s vaccine mandates, Lidia Thorpe backs Mardi Gras’ police ban, and NDIS-funded programs have been unlawfully restraining children with autism.

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