The response to Peter Dutton’s back-of-the-envelope announcement yesterday on seven proposed nuclear power sites — they hadn’t even googled to find out that the owner of the Port Augusta site has other plans for it — is occurring in a weird haze of amnesia about what’s going on with major infrastructure projects in Australia.
On the one hand, the corporate media gleefully reports news of major cost blowouts for big projects. On the other hand, being taken for granted is the Coalition’s ability to achieve an unprecedented project of a fleet of nuclear power stations, including two by 2035-37, without a truly shocking cost.
What’s the federal Coalition’s form on building major projects? Let’s take three from its last period in government.
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