The prime minister will be in Sydney to promote Labor’s help-to-buy program. Follow today’s news headlines liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastBarnaby Joyce defends Coalition’s proposed Muswellbrook nuclear power station despite recent earthquakesQ&A was broadcast from Newcastle overnight and Barnaby Joyce was one of the guests (there is a reason it is also known as the Bad Show) so of course nuclear power played a pretty big role in the “debate”.I had lunch in the RSL club. The damage from that was a chimney fell over and maybe a couple of windows broke out. If you go through the design process of that, baseload power plants a day, they take this into account and this is why the engineering and the peer structure of engineering to compensate and deal with issues such as earthquakes. Thirty countries in the world are using nuclear power. Serious economies. They all deal with issues like this. They do engineer for that circumstance.There’s been 36 accidents [related to nuclear power plants worldwide] and increase in miscarriage, stillbirth, childhood cancers and I wouldn’t want my kids there.Can you put substance to that? What are you quoting there?Literally science…Australians are free to live their life as they choose within the bounds of the law, while respecting the right of others to live how they wish with dignity and freedom.… This is especially important at a time when, let’s be frank, our social cohesion is strained. Continue reading…
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Author : Amy Remeikis
Publish date : 2024-09-16 23:47:01
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