The Liberals have faced an existential crisis over climate and energy policy while the government races to get its environmental laws through parliament.
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Arthur Sinodinos with some reflections and advice
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As Arthur Sinodinos prepares to leave the Senate for his new role as Australian ambassador to the US, he sits with Michelle Grattan to reflect on his time in politics.
The major party’s Easter ceasefire allowed Malcolm Turnbull to resurrect the National Energy Guarantee.
This and Turnbull’s observations on energy policy provided abundant material for a question time attack by Labor bloated from dining on the unending manna that’s been flowing from political heaven.
The Labor Party’s newly announced energy policy could finally set Australia’s electricity sector on the path to a renewables-driven future. But policies are still needed to cut emissions elsewhere.
The federal Coalition’s primary vote fell for the third consecutive time, to 34%, in a poll that if replicated at an election would cost 21 seats.
Michelle Grattan speaks with Deep Saini about the week in Australian politics.
Labor’s promise to subsidise batteries for households quickly became, in government parlance, “pink batts to pink batteries” – seeking to trigger memories of Rudd’s policy that cost several lives.
The federal government is primarily to blame for the mess that is Australia’s energy policy. It’s time for the states to step up, to reduce both prices and emissions.
Alex Turnbull said in his video the IPCC report “frankly was terrifying … and it’s seemingly insane to me that we could not be doing something about this and soon”.
It’s hard to fault Morrison’s first fortnight, if you can get past his description of events that tore down a PM as “that Muppet Show”, and swallow any cynicism about his careful choreography.
Australians are angry about electricity prices and both the federal government and opposition are proposing to cap them. Will this approach work, and what are the risks?
It’s time Australian states took a lesson from US states when it comes to working around obstructive federal climate change policies.
We need to move past biased, opaque models for energy policies.
If the next few days go quietly, Turnbull will live now from poll to poll, with enemies circling like crows over a weakened animal.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has abandoned the emissions-reduction component of his signature energy policy, in the latest chapter of a brutal decade-long saga for Australian climate policy.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has back away from a plan to enshrine a target to reduce carbon emission in the National Energy Guarantee.
Michelle Grattan speaks with Deep Saini about the week in Australian politics.
If there were enough floor-crossers to sink the package’s emissions reduction legislation, that would effectively (though not literally) amount to a vote of no confidence in the Prime Minister.
Renewable energy investment is gathering steam throughout the world. Australia’s National Energy Guarantee policy should be made agile enough to jump on board, because this runaway train won’t stop.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Energy Fellow, Grattan Institute
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Vice-Chancellor and President, University of Canberra
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy and Director, Centre for Climate and Energy Policy, Australian National University
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Senior Fellow in Energy and Climate Change, Grattan Institute
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Senior Associate, Grattan Institute
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Honorary Associate Professor, Centre for Climate Economics and Policy, Australian National University
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Former Visiting Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
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Research Manager, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Energy Fellow, Grattan Institute
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ARC DECRA Fellow, Australian National University
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Professor and Director, Victoria Energy Policy Centre, Victoria University
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Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
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Senior lecturer, Australian National University
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Adjunct professor, Charles Sturt University