Sign of the Times

In Glen Le Lievre’s GIF a lump of coal excitedly runs back and forward across the screen brandishing a placard bearing a symbol for nuclear power. Le Lievre’s work is a response to Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s proposal for new nuclear energy plants to be constructed on the sites of existing coal-fired power stations. In September he declared that a ‘Dutton Coalition government will be the best friend that the mining and resources sector in Australia will ever have’.