On climate change, Labor should embrace its past rather than be overwhelmed by fear
One of the oft forgotten aspects of the ALP’s 2007 election campaign was that for the first time since losing the 1996 election it stopped being afraid of the Hawke-Keating legacy. After years of being worried of the tainted brush of high interest rates and recession, it embraced their reforms and dared the Coalition to run its scare campaign about interest rates and economic management in the face of concerns about economic ructions occurring overseas.
So wedded was the Coalition to these scare tactics that, in the run-up to the 2013 election, it was still saying interest rates would always be lower under the Liberal party, even though the cash rate was then over 4% points lower than it had been when the Howard government lost office.
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