News
The head of the organisation that designed South Australia’s nuclear citizens’ jury process has hit out at the State Government, saying it has stopped listening to its community and has failed to heed the lessons of Brexit.
Opinion
South Australia’s nuclear citizens’ jury is another example of ordinary people fighting back against politically influential elites, argues economics commentator Richard Blandy.
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The body set up to oversee the nuclear royal commission’s consultation with the South Australian community has joined criticisms of the citizens’ jury process that comprehensively rejected the idea of a nuclear waste facility for the state, InDaily can reveal.
Political scientist Haydon Manning was called as an expert witness to the State Government’s citizens’ jury on the nuclear waste dump proposal. What he experienced, and what he has learned since, has led him to question the value of the Government’s “deliberative democracy” push.
The failed process of the nuclear fuel cycle citizens’ jury could lead to an economic tragedy for South Australia, argues Ben Heard.
The citizens’ jury bombshell has left Jay Weatherill facing an unwinnable political conundrum, writes Tom Richardson. And either way, he will have to abandon one of two projects most closely associated with his premiership.
Facebook’s defeat of MySpace, the Motorola scandal that brought down a Premier, and Q&A’s key role – the second citizens’ jury on South Australia’s nuclear potential has delved into some surprising corners in its report rejecting a nuclear waste dump for the state.
