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Energy policy: the $72 billion fair dinkum disaster

26 February 2019

12:03 PM

26 February 2019

12:03 PM

Energy and climate change policy in Australia and other western democracies is now, along with immigration and its associated fear of imported third world violence, the cutting edge of the political divide.

But in Australia, the Liberal Party’s policy over the past 20 years has converged with that of the Labor Party and latterly the Greens to favour increased subsidies to electricity generated from wind and solar. 

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