Stuart Bonds' statements at the Hunter mining conference were extremely ironic if not outright hilarious ("A new coal-fired power station and the 'cult of net zero'", Herald 4/8). The One Nation candidate describes net-zero advocates as being in a "cult" and "anti-capitalist", while claiming coal is cheaper than renewables and proposing nuclear power. But here in the real world, the opposite is true. Peter Dutton (remember him?) used to cite Ontario as the poster child of cheap nuclear power but failed to mention that only government subsidies keep the price down, and building it sent the state generator bankrupt.