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Victoria, the virtue-signalling state

How Matt kKean helped lead Matt Guy to electoral disaster

3 December 2022

9:00 AM

3 December 2022

9:00 AM

Who’s to blame for the dismal drubbing of the Victorian Liberals in the state election? That depends on who you ask. A month ago, NSW Treasurer and Minister for Energy Matt Kean was keen, so to speak, to take credit for shaping Victoria’s policies. In an interview with his Victorian counterparts deputy leader David Southwick and shadow minister for the environment James Newbury, the latter explained how he consulted Kean before he announced the plan to legislate an emissions reduction target of 50 per cent by 2030.

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