Peter Dutton has promised to solve our energy problems – but his nuclear policy still leaves Australians in the dark
- Written by John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
In 1971 on a family holiday, my father drove us to look at a huge concrete slab at Jervis Bay, on the South Coast of New South Wales. Still visible today, it was the foundation for what would have been Australia’s first nuclear power plant.
The project had just been cancelled by then-prime minister Billy McMahon who had recently replaced...
