WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet |CONTACT
A young woman from the Melbourne suburb of Brunswick has today explained to the Advocate why this country needs to get the jump on nuclear power.
The Gender and English Literature graduate from Monash University who is currently working in one of Melbourne’s cutting edge artisan cafe’s explained that it’s killing her to see the nation waste ‘this opportunity.’
The opportunity Ashlee Yeo is referring to, is Australia’s ability to cash in on a potential nuclear power boom.
While many would argue nuclear power, or the storage of nuclear waste in our vast continent would be part of the solution to the climate change problem we face, and provide a significant economic benefit for Australia, Yeo has quickly moved to clarify that ‘we should be doing it in the outback though.’
“Oh yeah, I’m all for it, but I think it should be like out in central Australia or something you know,” she said.
“I watched Chernobyl the other day, and even though I know something like that wouldn’t happen here, if it did, it would be way better out where people don’t actually live,” explained the young woman who hasn’t been further out than Avalon Airport in the last few years.
“Oh I mean, yeah obviously a few people live out there, but like not many.”
“Can you imagine if something happened near Melbourne, god. Australia’s culture would be dead,” explained the young woman currently working on a novel about teenage angst growing up in an upper-middle-class home in a well-to-do Melbourne suburb and struggling with conformity.
“Once we sort out a sight that doesn’t effect me, lets make it happen!”
“Come on Australia, get your act together, otherwise I’ll have to threaten to move to Scandinavia or something.”
