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The wrong answer for an energy crisis that does not exist – The Australian Financial Review
Scott Morrison and Angus Taylor have swooped in with plans that have managed to scare the power industry and the environmentalists at the same time.
The then Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, pressured AGL to either keep Liddell open or sell it to someone else who would be prepared to do so.
Thus began a long period of machismo from the Coalition government about Liddell which was inextricably bound up in the internal Coalition wars about coal and its centrality to future power security.
AGL announced about the same time Taylor announced the taskforce that it would delay Liddells closure until after the 2022/23 summer, to ensure there were…
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