Former Prime Minister Paul Keating has entered the nuclear debate, with a vitriolic attack describing Peter Dutton as “a charlatan”, “wicked and cynical” and “an inveterate climate change denialist”.
In a Sunday statement Keating accused Dutton of “seeking to camouflage his long held denialism in an industrial fantasy”. He was resorting “to the most dangerous and expensive energy source on the face of the earth – nuclear power”.
While the debate unleashed by last week’s Coalition release of its nuclear policy – still lacking crucial detail – involves claims and counter claims about a host of technical and economic issues, at another level it has descended into abuse and silly memes.
