What would a Dutton Liberal leadership mean for the Liberals and the country?

[peetoo]

did ‘thug’ ever have it to lose? he’s a trump level reactionary and climate change denier.

Germany does have the full back of importing power from surrounding countries. Australia does not.

But then there’s the elephant in the room. Privatisation

 

[Not Important]

Germany does have the full back of importing power from surrounding countries. Australia does not.

But then there’s the elephant in the room. Privatisation

there's way more to their decision than that. relying on other countries in this day and age would be foolhardy.

 

[peetoo]

there's way more to their decision than that. relying on other countries in this day and age would be foolhardy.

Ageeed. AUS should have more self sufficiency. We are a long way off and getting worse given the natural resources we have

 

[Festerz]

Credit to twitter poster @bajoogs

 

[Gough]

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Credit to x poster @bajoogs

Joke of a policy, joke of a leader.

 

[Not Important]

i’m not sure what’s more embarrassing, ‘thug’ spewing this s**t or the peeps who’ll swallow it.

 

[Festerz]

 

[Not Important]

and tony once worked for the reactionaries as a strategist.

 

[QuietB]

Can Peter Dutton actually win enough seats to form government?

Dunkley is a template of the kind of seat Peter Dutton needs to win to take office. His failure at last weekend’s byelection informs a seat-by-seat analysis that shows victory is almost impossible.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au

A few excepts;

Following the Liberal Party’s loss in last weekend’s Dunkley byelection, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton announced that nuclear power would be the centrepiece of the Coalition’s energy and climate policy.

His plan, says Tony Barry, is “the longest suicide note in Australian political history”.



The “electoral arithmetic” is just too daunting, Barry says. Dutton’s positioning of the Coalition is all wrong and the party continues to play to what he calls “internal audiences” – the right-wing echo chamber typified by Murdoch’s “Sky after dark” – and remains “captured by internal contests instead of external contests”.



John Black, a former Labor politician who now runs a company doing demographic profiling, also believes the Coalition’s current approach is a recipe for failure.

“They’re picking up blue-collar blokes. They are, there’s no doubt about that. But the point is, are they in the right seats? And I think the answer to that is ‘no’. And it’s also a declining demographic, whereas the teals’ support is based on a female professional demographic, which is getting bigger.”

 

[Gough]

Can Peter Dutton actually win enough seats to form government?

Dunkley is a template of the kind of seat Peter Dutton needs to win to take office. His failure at last weekend’s byelection informs a seat-by-seat analysis that shows victory is almost impossible.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au

A few excepts;

Following the Liberal Party’s loss in last weekend’s Dunkley byelection, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton announced that nuclear power would be the centrepiece of the Coalition’s energy and climate policy.

His plan, says Tony Barry, is “the longest suicide note in Australian political history”.



The “electoral arithmetic” is just too daunting, Barry says. Dutton’s positioning of the Coalition is all wrong and the party continues to play to what he calls “internal audiences” – the right-wing echo chamber typified by Murdoch’s “Sky after dark” – and remains “captured by internal contests instead of external contests”.



John Black, a former Labor politician who now runs a company doing demographic profiling, also believes the Coalition’s current approach is a recipe for failure.

“They’re picking up blue-collar blokes. They are, there’s no doubt about that. But the point is, are they in the right seats? And I think the answer to that is ‘no’. And it’s also a declining demographic, whereas the teals’ support is based on a female professional demographic, which is getting bigger.”

The government are going to target him as someone who can't be taken seriously from here, he's in danger of ending up like 1980s John Howard at the moment.

 

[kalex6251]

but but but ........ credlin thinks lurch is on track to be australias next PM .... hes picking the right fights ....... and standing up for sound australian values (whateva they are) ......... what gives

 

[E Shed]

but but but ........ credlin thinks lurch is on track to be australias next PM .... hes picking the right fights ....... and standing up for sound australian values (whateva they are) ......... what gives

Credlin is a sociopath who thinks she’s right & everyone else is wrong despite everything she did while in politics a disaster. You can’t reason with people like her.

 

[nut]

Nuclear

so they are going to build nuclear reactors where coal power is now… lol.

What’s the cost? Lol

 

[Not Important]

as former liberal strategist said ‘thugs’ nuclear plan “is the longest suicide note ever written”

 

[deck]

Isn't he lying like the rest of them. He appears to claim the Saudis are powered by green energy. Very little of there grid is made up of renewable energy. What is this Saudi Ramco he speaks of?

 

[Gavin Excell]

In a major shock Sky News "analysts" all falling into line as their employer directs on nuclear

 

[Gough]

The opposition leader, Peter Dutton, has used his speech at the Australian Financial Review’s business summit in Sydney to step up his advocacy of nuclear energy.

Dutton said the Coalition would soon reveal the “potential host sites” for six nuclear energy plants. Those sites, though, won’t include Tasmania (which happens to be holding state elections later this month).

Much of the speech was an attack on the Albanese government’s “renewables wonderland”. The former police officer, who said he “comes from a business background”, called for a “mature conversation” about nuclear energy.

Dutton played up the technology as having the highest yield for the lowest amount of land. He said he would listen to communities but also offer incentives for them to give the social licence for nuclear plants. (Asked about the incentives, he didn’t elaborate.)

Spud using the Trump two weeks strategy.

 

[QuietB]

as former liberal strategist said ‘thugs’ nuclear plan “is the longest suicide note ever written”

Who are these "journalists" you speak of?

 

[Kyptastic]

Exhibit A as to why Dutton’s going to be unable to sell Nuclear

 

[QuietB]

Exhibit A as to why Dutton’s going to be unable to sell Nuclear

He is so screwed.

Liberals will lose seats at the next election of this is what they are going on. Idiots.

 

[peetoo]

Liberals gaslighting deflecting from the fact that screwing up energy policy is in their DNA.

 

[Demonic Ascent]

Spud using the Trump two weeks strategy.

Has anyone asked why he's pursuing nuclear energy? Considering he doesn't believe in man made climate change?

 

[peetoo]

Has anyone asked why he's pursuing nuclear energy? Considering he doesn't believe in man made climate change?

He won’t tell you but **** to prolong the coal generation longer probably in their minds till these damn scientists see sense

 

[Millky95]

Has anyone asked why he's pursuing nuclear energy? Considering he doesn't believe in man made climate change?

To continue mining for coal in the interim and because those same coal owners likely also own the uranium mines

 

[Festerz]

Did anyone watch that disastrous interview with a politician I'd never heard of before called Ted O'Brien on 7:30 tonight?

This guy is apparently the opposition energy spokesman and tried to avoid answering any question put to him on his nuclear energy policy.

But he gave the game away on why Dutton is flogging the SMR dead horse which are totally unsuited to Australian conditions and decades away from ever operating even if the Australian public agreed to embracing nuclear energy:

"So our view is we should not be closing our coal-fired power stations prematurely."

The verbose idiot said the quiet bit out loud.

SMRs aren't the future for Australia. They are simply a short term vapourware political placeholder for the coal industry who back Dutton to the hilt to keep their profit mill turning for as long as possible.

More stalling, more denials and more inaction from Dutton when it comes to climate change and energy security for Australia. But keep his coal mining mates in mega profits. That's his energy policy for Australia.

Imagine if the ALP, Greens, Teals and Independents pooled together on just this one issue at the next election. With an advertising campaign focussed on the under 40s about what Dutton is saying about their and their family's future? Sadly it will never happen, despite being the most important issue for our nation's future. But imagine if it did - it would kill this energy wars, climate changing denying BS forever - the political slate wiped clean for a cross-party intelligent facts based sustainable approach to climate change.