Our Media Glass House research teams are today again marvelling at just how closely the Liberal Party and its advertising agency News Crap Australia are working together to shepherd Australia down the path towards nuclear power.

While both sides would deny any collusion, the evidence has been there for all to see since Opposition Leader Peter Dutton fired the starting gun on the latest nuclear debate soon after the Liberal-National parties’ federal election loss in May by commissioning a review of its feasibility by one of his frontbenchers.

Our MGH researchers are always careful not to stray into the realms of political commentary.

However, they do point out that the Liberal Party in particular received a thrashing at the ballot box, due in part to its perceived hostility to renewable energy.

Why then, they ponder, would Mr Dutton respond not by overhauling party policies to make them more acceptable to voters seeking climate and environmentally friendlier energy sources, but instead seize on what he clearly believes is a wedge issue to provide voters with a clear choice to Labor?

Even our MGH researchers have doubts that voters in the now “teal” seats captured in former Liberal Party heartland areas will be impressed by a party proposing a string of nuclear power plants across the nation. But that is a matter for Dutton and Co to resolve.

In the interim we see today more assistance given by News Crap Australia to the Libs.

First there is the remarkable story by James Campbell outlining new market research revealing a supposed drop in support for renewable energy and supposedly strong backing for nuclear power. (below)

The major flaw in the story as far as our MGH teams are concerned is that the survey was conducted by CT Group, formerly known as Crosby Textor which, along with News Crap Australia, is a rusted on Liberal Party promotional agency. Mr Campbell does note that fact in his yarn.

Readers would be excused for wondering why Mr Dutton might think it a good idea to accept the continued embrace of the News Crap Australia empire, especially if he stops to consider its track record of recent times when it comes to editorially embracing and backing the Libs.

Has he not caught up with the Victorian election results? Or pretty much any other state election?

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The pro-nuclear campaign by News Crap Australia on behalf of the Libs is also evident elsewhere in its Sunday outlets.

Columnist and Liberal Party spruiker Peta Credlin again uses her column (below) to lash the Albanese Government for not reducing household power bills to zero, which our MGH teams think would be the point at which she may stop attacking Labor and its energy policies although they can’t be sure she would stop even if that happened.

She is joined by another old News Crap Australia stager Piers Ackerman who likewise lays into Labor on the power issue and gives a shout out for nuclear power on the way through. (below)

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On a separate issue, News Crap Australia outlets ran another full-page ad for the coalition parties yesterday.

This time it was a National Party news release on the need for urgent action to boost funding for regional roads written by Vicki Campion. (below)

Readers will recall that Ms Campion is the partner of National Party federal MP and two-time party leader Barnaby Joyce.

Her columns often, or maybe that should be usually…. bugger it, let’s face it; they always reflect the position de jour of the Nats.

Readers may also have already done the sums in their heads to work out that while Ms Campion attacks the Albanese Government for not spending enough on regional roads, it has not been long in office and in fact it was the Liberals and Nationals that held the Treasury keys for 19 of the past 25 years.

But wait, Ms Campion is ahead of you on that one.

“Even when the coalition were in government, it was a frustrating fight to get any significant regional road funding,” she wrote.

“Picked on as ‘pork barrelling’ by Labor and disregarded by inner-city departmental advisers who quickly claim they aren’t value for money, preferring electric bus chargers…..”

We won’t repeat her entire argument. But you can see that even when pure mathematics shows otherwise, Labor is still to blame.