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Failure atop failure: Turnbull’s NEG

13 November 2017

7:06 AM

13 November 2017

7:06 AM

The government’s National Energy Guarantee is not the knockout blow in Australia’s energy wars. Rather, it marks a continuation of three decades of failed energy policies.

We shouldn’t buy the spin that the government is doing away with subsidies for renewables. The NEG differs to the Renewable Energy Target (RET), the Clean Energy Target (CET), and the carbon tax only by degree and not kind.

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