A series of competing and interlinked priorities are colliding in Labor’s Senate, where all eyes are turning to the next election.
Despite its limitations, behavioural economics does throw up the odd insight into Canberra political behaviour.
While there have been plenty of warnings about a backlash from ornery Ute Men, backbenchers on both sides report that voters are not yet fully engaged with the changes. A lack of understanding or even indifference seemingly prevails. Transplant something similar into Australia, and that’s the number that awakens voters and gives them a visceral sense the policy will directly affect them and their next car purchase, said one pollster this week in Canberra.Details of the reform are being finalised in closed meetings between the government and a select group of motoring bodies, EV advocates and car importers.
An increasingly tangled web of adjacent and sometimes downright unrelated issues spanning climate policy, gas regulation, tax, and environmental protection are falling into a rough order of business for the Senate. King’s move has outraged the Greens, who are now threatening to end their co-operation with Labor on a host of other issues, but
Instead, the government is still consulting green, business and mining industry groups, with a third and final round of negotiations next week.Legislation is understood to still be some way off given ongoing differences between green groups that want a proposed future Environmental Protection Agency to have full autonomy over environmental approvals, and the strong business preference for meaningful ministerial “call-in” power over project applications.
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