The Coalition's nuclear fantasy serves short-term political objectives - and its fossil fuel backers | Peter Lewis

Dutton's policy latches on to genuine concerns about power prices and disruption evident in the latest Guardian Essential report, but what are its real motivations?In 1959 the US government hatched a covert scheme to replace every single bird with a replicant surveillance drone to spy on its own citizens. This is only the second silliest theory flying around the internet right now.Peter Dutton's make-believe nuclear plan bears some of the hallmarks of Peter McIndoe's actual piss-take, "Birds Aren't Real", which became so real he wound up doing interviews with Fox News and running large-scale community rallies where only some of the participants were chanting his nonsense slogan ironically. Continue reading...