Three-eyed koalas, Peter Dutton masquerading as Snow White in a “seven nukes” fairytale, and an arsenal of Simpsons gags to boot. The Coalition is objecting about what they say are “juvenile” online memes from government MPs attacking its nuclear policy, as Labor MPs mount a social media attack on the opposition’s controversial and uncosted nuclear proposal. Labor has savaged the Coalition’s energy plan, with questions still unanswered over safety, cost, waste, design and local consultation.
Much Coalition concern on Thursday focused on a barrage of memes, with Dutton even calling on the ABC to “condemn” one that referenced cartoon koala Blinky Bill. 2:29 Peter Dutton outlines timeline of Coalition's plan for nuclear power rollout – video Michaelia Cash, the shadow attorney general, complained that Anthony Albanese “should pull his frontbench and all Labor MPs into line and tell them not to make such attacks”. Cash was particularly troubled by what she called a “disgraceful” Instagram post from Andrew Leigh, the assistant minister for treasury: a cartoon image of Blinky Bill, with three eyes edited on to his head, standing in front of the nuclear plant from The Simpsons.
“Is this what Peter Dutton wants Blinky to look like in 50 years?” Leigh wrote. It’s the latest iteration of a Simpsons theme from Labor and other nuclear critics referencing the long-running cartoon’s nuclear power plant and its depictions of atomic energy – including its .
