Black holes in Coalition nuclear plan: Why voters deserve better than Peter Duttons announcement [Video]

Peter Dutton is asking Australians to trust him on nuclear energy in the brazen hope they will mistake a Jatz cracker for a three-course meal.

The opposition leader names seven sites for nuclear power stations and commits to federal ownership to get them built, but everything else is unknown.

Dutton is being incredibly bold in telling voters the basic concepts of his plan so far out from the next election – a rare thing in politics these days and especially difficult when it comes with big political risks. The problem is that he offers so little substance to support his soundbites.

In fact, his plan has two black holes, before getting to countless questions about secondary details.

The first black hole is the cost. Dutton and the shadow cabinet cannot say how much taxpayer money would be poured into building the nuclear power plants, nor how much …