NSW premier Chris Minns and treasurer Daniel Mookhey have written to the NSW Labor party in the wake of new corruption allegations
Rudd weighs in on comments made at Tenacious D concert
In case you missed it: Jack Black has put his rock duo Tenacious D on hold following an onstage comment made by his bandmate Kyle Gass about the shooting of Donald Trump.
Black said he was “blindsided” by what was said on stage, and he “no longer feel[s] it is appropriate to continue” the tour. You can read more below:
Former prime minister and ambassador to the US Kevin Rudd has weighed in on the matter, and said:
It makes me feel sick that someone would joke about violence. It makes me feel physically ill. People might think that it is funny ha-ha to run off your mouth there. It’s not. It’s about physical life. It’s about the threat to physical life. It’s about the near assassination of a former and prospective president of the United States, depending how people vote, and about the murder of an innocent civilian and two people seriously wounded. These people need to grow up and find a decent job.Energy minister says nuclear and renewables ‘simply incompatible’ in Australia
In his speech to the National Press Club, Chris Bowen will say areas earmarked for nuclear plants – such as Port Augusta, Lithgow and central Queensland – require major investment and revitalisation as soon as possible, not a decade from now under the Coalition’s nuclear announcement.
Bowen said those areas “need jobs and investment now”, claiming the Coalition’s nuclear plan would lead to uncertainty in energy markets and threaten investment in renewable energy. He will claim:
The biggest problem of all is that in Australia, nuclear and renewables are simply incompatible. While the opposition purports to support an “all of the above” energy mix, their ideological pursuit of nuclear reactors in two decades’ time would wreck the renewables rollout now.
Bowen brands the opposition “arrogant” over its comments about forcing states and local towns to accept nuclear plants, even if they don’t want them.
The minister predicts an “investment chill” into Australian industry if the government-backed nuclear policy came into force, asking: “Why would domestic or global investors try to compete with unlimited taxpayer subsidies for state-sponsored generation?”
Base-load nuclear plants simply don’t stack up economically in a grid with significant renewable generation.
