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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.
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Reports of a Labor leadership crisis may have been greatly exaggerated, but there is a crisis of leadership in the nuclear debate, writes Tom Richardson.
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A former Liberal senator for South Australia has dropped a political missile on his party colleagues, rejecting Steven Marshall’s claim that the economics of a nuclear waste dump “don’t stack up” – and demanding opponents of the plan propose an alternative vision for the state.
The state Liberal Party’s new policy director is a long-time nuclear advocate who personally called for the establishment of a nuclear waste dump in a submission to the Scarce Royal Commission.
UPDATED: Jay Weatherill has dramatically stared down his cabinet waverers and laid down the gauntlet to the Liberal Opposition, vowing to continue down the nuclear path – with the question to be determined by a referendum.
If Jay Weatherill is the same Premier he was three years ago, today’s cabinet meeting looms as his “Don Farrell moment” ahead of the 2018 election.
Jay Weatherill has lost his fiercest advocate for a nuclear waste dump, a proposal that appears to have no hope of proceeding, with Business SA chief Nigel McBride telling InDaily today the plan was now “dead”.
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