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South Australia loves a big, taxpayer-funded, get-rich-quick scheme, writes economics commentator Richard Blandy. He should know: he was once conscripted by the government to do the numbers on the mythical Multifunction Polis.
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Former Governor and nuclear royal commissioner Kevin Scarce says the time has come for Australia to “stand up as a nation”, urging action towards taking the Republic question back “to the people”.
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The Citizens’ Jury is an ideal model to examine the contentious question of whether South Australia should accept the world’s nuclear waste, writes Kyle Bozentko, visiting head of the US organisation founded to pioneer the juries’ use.
Passionate advocates and fierce opponents of a state-based high-level nuclear waste dump will confront the first Citizens’ Jury debating the issue over the weekend.
Political scientist Haydon Manning hits back at economic critiques of SA’s proposed nuclear waste dump, arguing they are mischievous, premature and ignore a pressing moral case underpinning the debate.
The economic case for a high level nuclear waste facility in South Australia is far from convincing, writes Richard Blandy.
The citizens’ jury beginning this month to debate South Australia’s nuclear future is not an attempt to manufacture the “social consent” alluded to by Royal Commissioner Kevin Scarce, but a bid to establish whether it exists, says one of the architects of the forum.
