Responsible for Australia having the world’s most expensive electricity and gas, the least thing the Turnbull government could do is overrule the decision by AGL’s CEO Andy Vesey to close the crucial Liddell power station.
Vesey, here on a 457 visa and reportedly on an annual income of $6.9 million, should be warned that Liddell will be compulsorily acquired at the same price AGL boasts it paid for this publicly-owned property worth three quarters of a billion dollars: nothing, rien, nada, zero, zilch.
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