
Labor backs Greens to reimpose nuclear gag
Labor’s about-face on nuclear waste is complete, with the State Government backing the Greens’ push to reinstate laws banning public money being spent on advancing the nuclear debate in South Australia.
Labor’s about-face on nuclear waste is complete, with the State Government backing the Greens’ push to reinstate laws banning public money being spent on advancing the nuclear debate in South Australia.
The abandoned community engagement program for South Australia’s doomed nuclear repository has won a brace of international awards in an ironic footnote to the waste dump debate.
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A parliamentary inquiry into Jay Weatherill’s doomed nuclear waste repository has told the State Government not to spend another cent of public money on the plan, with MPs from both major parties conspiring to drive the last nail into the project’s political coffin.
Jay Weatherill’s abandonment of his nuclear dream leaves him with next to nothing to show for the ‘bold’ policy vision he outlined more than two years ago. And, writes Tom Richardson, it fatally undermines his pretence of being a politician of conviction.
Premier Jay Weatherill has officially walked away from one of the major policy hallmarks of his term in Government, pronouncing the nuclear waste dump “dead” and vowing he will not revisit it if he wins another term in office.
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.