Whoever forms government this weekend, we can expect the Coalition to keep playing silly buggers with climate policy
It’s now 12 years (and seven prime ministers) since John Howard promised to introduce a price on carbon and – despite emissions having increased to a new high and a number of big coal fired power stations having shut down – Australia still doesn’t have anything approaching a coherent climate and energy policy.
Since Tony Abbott scrapped the carbon price in 2014, wholesale electricity prices have doubled while sequential Coalition prime ministers have proposed emission intensity schemes (EIS), clean energy targets (CET), national energy guarantees (Neg) and then settled on renaming Abbott’s direct action scheme to the climate solution fund (CFS).
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