What options do we have to combat global warming and address the energy crisis? Politically, there’s a debate between renewable energy and nuclear power.

In the olden days, politicians would use the Christmas break to have a break, and give us a break from them. Remember Acting Prime Minister Doug Anthony running the country from a caravan at New Brighton?

The Climate Council says Australians are being kept in the dark about the true costs of the federal Coalition’s risky and expensive nuclear scheme, saying heavy reliance on the first of two Frontier Economics reports paints a damning picture of the methods they may use to fudge the nuclear numbers and mislead Australians.

There’s an urgent need for truth in political advertising legislation, but it’s hardly likely to be proposed by either major party.

Peter Dutton’s going nuclear. When you set aside his proposed intention to build actual reactors on our landscape, there is a figurative meaning which I feel underpins the spirit of the man and his political approach. Going nuclear can also mean ‘to become furious; to resort to drastic measures in an attempt to undermine an opponent.’

The Mullumbimby Farmers Market saw a protest on Friday against the visit of the Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, to India to sign a deal with the Indian government for the transfer of nuclear technology.