Earlier this month Josh Frydenberg the Energy Minister wrote that the states’ renewable energy targets are leading to policy chaos. But in fact the opposite is true. It is the national policy chaos that Minister Frydenberg is presiding over that is leading states to step in with their own policies to support renewable investment.
Read MoreToday in the Australian newspaper, the Minister for Environment and Energy, Josh Frydenberg, engaged in a grand exercise of attacking Labor policy. In doing so, he used all the usual tricks of a government desperate to distract from its own record; misrepresentation of Opposition policy, mischaracterisation of modelling and of course, a fanciful description of the actual challenges we face.
Read MoreFor a Government that has been so vocal about not picking winners, the Turnbull Government seems to be very comfortable picking coal as Australia’s future energy source.
Read MoreThis Centrelink debacle has to end, it has already caused too much unnecessary stress and anxiety. The Government needs to recognise the pain they have caused. I have written to Social Services Minister Alan Tudge urging him to immediately suspend the program.
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