Regional seats often held for or swung to the LNP. The election results aren’t as much of a glowing endorsement for renewables as you suggest. Still, it is rich for that statement to be coming from the Nationals, considering that their long history of lies about renewables are partly to blame for the loss of their social license.
The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 5 days ago
Littleproud said his party remained committed to the introduction of nuclear power in Australia, saying renewable energy had lost its social licence and country communities wanted change.
Yes, this is definitely what the election results showed.
Tenderizer@aussie.zone 5 days ago
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Has renewable energy really lost its social license?
Farmers don’t like wind because all their neighbours are putting up noisy turbines.
Meanwhile every house in my street has solar because it’s a no-brainer.
CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 4 days ago
Advance Australia has been committing millions to whipping up a frothing frenzy against wind, solar and batteries in rural communities.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-19/…/105062600
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-20/…/105309810
Almacca@aussie.zone 3 days ago
Advance Australia
I’m not familiar with them so I looked them up. First sentence on the ‘Our Story’ page: “In 2018, woke politicians and elitist activist groups …”
That’s enough. [close tab] Fucking bigots.
Almacca@aussie.zone 3 days ago
I don’t know why solar isn’t mandatory for all new constructions.
Tenderizer@aussie.zone 3 days ago
Rooftop solar causes some issues for the grid and especially with every person getting their own battery it’s not very efficient.
On rural properties it would make sense to mandate them, but it would also be political suicide.
Almacca@aussie.zone 3 days ago
‘Lost it’s social licence’? Who with? Surely only with people who should lose their ‘social licence’, whatever that is.
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
They’re completely incapable of changing direction.
No one wants nuclear. Transmission distance is too far in Australia. It’s just a license to keep burning coal for another 30 years.
MisterFrog@aussie.zone 4 days ago
It’s so transparent it’s almost laughable.
What gets me about the Nationals, is they barely advocate for the region’s interests at all.
Climate change has, and is going to keep increasing the frequency and severity of droughts.
If I recall correctly, droughts in this country are strongly correlated with an increased rate of suicides of farmers, for fairly obvious reasons.
The Nationals ought to be on the “hey, how about we mitigate climate change” bandwagon.
But they’re so captured by Gina Rhinehart and other moneyed interests and apparently the voters in rural areas don’t care.
I don’t get it, honestly.