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June 19, 2025 41 mins

Professor Ian Plimer joins Jeremy Cordeaux around the dining room table for a powerful and provocative discussion on Australia's energy policies, climate change rhetoric, nuclear potential, and the role of bureaucracy in shaping public outcomes. From coal and uranium to education and Aboriginal affairs, nothing is off-limits as Professor Plimer delivers a no-nonsense reality check on what’s really driving policy failures in Australia.

Topics you'll hear;

  • Criticism of Australia's renewable energy push
  • The economic and practical viability of coal and nuclear energy

  • Thorium reactors and why Australia is ignoring nuclear innovation

  • Dysfunction of Australian bureaucracies and political decisions

  • Indigenous land rights and their impact on mining and development

  • The failure of “Closing the Gap” initiatives

  • Australia’s diminishing strategic importance to allies like the US

  • The potential sale of Santos to foreign investors

  • Dangers of fracking bans and state-level energy policy errors

  • Decline in Australian education and impact on national development

  • Alarming government debt and intergenerational burden

  • Overinvestment in projects like Live Golf and Festival Plaza

  • AI’s looming disruption of government and legal sectors

  • Youth voices like Isabella Taylor challenging climate alarmism

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