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The Morrison government is sabotaging its renewable energy agency – The Guardian
This will undermine competitiveness, destroy innovation and prop up a failed polluting fossil fuel industry
If you fail to remember the past you are condemned to repeat it. In the UK in the 1860s the horse carriage industry and new railways were threatened by the self-propelled motor vehicle. So the government swung into action on behalf of its supporters, sabotaging the new industry by requiring every motor vehicle to be preceded by a man waving a red flag. All it achieved was to deny the community the benefits of the new technology and transfer the innovative advantage to other countries.
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