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In the fraught field of energy policy, Scott Morrison is taking the middle ground – ABC News
Taken as a whole and leaving aside the arguments about their efficacy, this week’s energy decisions have a clear political element. They are risk averse within the Coalition, writes Michelle Grattan.
If Labor were threatening to build a power station, the Liberals would likely be screaming “socialists”.
As for a Coalition government contemplating such a thing well, to say the obvious, it hardly fits with the Liberals’ stated free market, private enterprise philosophy. But hey, neither does the hyper-Keynesian support package to cushion the economy through the pandemic.
Only a few within its own ranks would dispute the government’s COVID mega spending, whatever the ideological contradiction…
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