Pixelated Semantics

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Australia's nightmare (revisited)

As the SMH observes, PM Howard has again 'ramped up his rhetoric' in making increasingly frequent calls for 'a full-blooded debate' on uranium and nuclear energy 'like the GST' (with no apparent irony--the GST in Australia of course was implemented without debate or mandate).

Man of Steel is winding up the public again: this time using nuclear energy to make comparisons without a basis ('cleaner and greener' than what?), and to have a tilt at pre-selecting an audience ('some of the people') by arguing:

'...the environmental advantages of going to nuclear power are there for all to see. It is cleaner and greener and therefore some of the people who in the past have opposed it should support it.'

Uranium enrichment (whether as a forerunner to nuclear power or not) is also being hastily pushed in concert by other senior figures in government--leaving the explanation that enrichment is also 'a step on the road to building nuclear weapons' to journalists. Countries close to here are already expressing alarm.

By the way, according to former deputy PM Anthony in his Australian editorial, a nuclear waste deposit is not a 'dump', its a 'hi-tech operation'.

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