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Leading article Australia

Jobs not RET

28 January 2017

9:00 AM

28 January 2017

9:00 AM

The Liberal party should stand for business, but it doesn’t. It should stand for jobs, but it doesn’t. It should stand for maintaining and sustaining energy infrastructure supporting businesses and jobs, but it doesn’t.

Instead it stands for a Renewable Energy Target, an arbitrary heavy cosh of a policy instrument that helps Green trendies sleep soundly beneath taxpayer-subsidised solar panels while the rest of the economy goes to hell in a handbasket.

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