Our Media Glass House researchers have several times in recent weeks pointed out the efforts by some at News Crap Australia to boost Australia’s would-be nuclear power industry.

There appears to be a concerted effort within News Crap Australia to plug nuclear power as an alternative to both the existing coal-fired power plants and the far-too-woke in their eyes renewable energy options.

The nascent media campaign just happens to dovetail with the stand of the federal opposition under Peter Dutton who wants a “discussion” on the potential application of  nuclear power in Australia.

The campaign has seen all the usual suspects in the News Crap stable swing into action. (below)

Their efforts over the past few weeks have now been bolstered by the editor-at-large of Rupert Murdoch’s daily turdbloid in Adelaide The Advertiser.

Writing a few days ago Paul Starick pushed the pro-nuclear power barrow as hard as he could and used comments by teen environmental activist Great Thunberg to back himself up. (below)

“When teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg opens the door to nuclear energy, it’s worth taking notice,” his “analysis” piece began.

He then went on to quote Thunberg from an interview she gave to a German news outlet.

In that interview against the backdrop of the current energy crisis in Europe she had been asked about the future of Germany’s nuclear power plants said: “If we have [nuclear power plants] already running, I feel that it’s a mistake to close them down in order to focus on [coal-fired power].”

Then Mr Starick picked up on Ms Thunberg’s answer to a question asking if the plants should close down once the current crisis abated.

Her answer was: “It depends. We don’t know what will happen after this.”

Now our MGH research teams have been asking themselves, each other, and anyone who strays into their sight on floors 11 to 19 of The Bug’s high-rise HQ if those comments by Ms Thunberg constitute opening the door to nuclear energy or being “on board” with the technology. The consensus has been a very firm NFW.

If anything Mr Starick should have congratulated Ms Thunberg for not taking a radical bomb-throwing lefty stance by demanding the immediate closure of the nuclear plants in the midst of an energy crisis.

Instead she has acknowledged the reality of the situation and has hardly given a ringing endorsement of nuclear power plants.

The point she was making was why close the nuclear plants if it means stepping up coal-fired power.

If she had been asked which she preferred to see as the backbone of Germany’s power system we suspect she would have said renewable energy plants.

But nuclear plants are a reality in Germany whether she likes them or not and closing them down, or even her calling for their closure, would have seen Mr Starick take a different tack, but one we are certain would not have been complimentary to Ms Thunberg.

Our MGH researchers have another important question they would like answered.

How come a place as small as Adelaide has an editor-at-large?

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Our MGH teams were impressed by Mr Starick’s ability to sell the case for nuclear power, especially his reference to the technology’s “zero emissions” while remaining absolutely silent on the issue of handling and storing nuclear power plant waste for, well let’s just say a millennium or two.

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Given the sensitivities of reporting criminal trials, let alone those such as one very high profile trial currently under way in the ACT we will not be making much comment on the extract from a story below by two female reporters of The Australian.

All we will say is: “Really!!??”

Note that we could have easily said, “Really, girls?”, but chose not to.