Peter Dutton believes he has found a politically saleable energy formula. It includes the now familiar condemnation of Labor’s “reckless” policy and warnings of catastrophic consequences in making power “exorbitantly expensive and the grid unreliable”. The shiny new element is the Coalition’s commitment to establishing nuclear power.

That is certainly a radical shift in a country where a ban on nuclear power has been part of the policy furniture for decades. Labor’s  scare campaign lines against it almost write themselves.