It’s a rare reversal of fortune in Australia’s mediocre (on a good day) political journalism environment: Labor is being given preferential treatment by the media compared to Peter Dutton’s opposition, at least on one key issue.
The media are all over the Coalition’s increasingly shambolic “signature” nuclear policy, the release of which has now apparently been dragged forward after being pushed back, with one MP telling Nine’s journalists that “we will have to educate 26 million people”. Presumably because scores of economists, energy experts, investors, scientists and the CSIRO, not to mention the International Energy Agency, are all uneducated.
That media scrutiny is entirely appropriate — the Coalition is clumsily pushing rotten policy.
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