Australian politics no longer resembles the horror shows of Washington and Westminster. But we are still making errors that will come back to bite us.
and ensure Congress can actually open for business. Britain’s Conservatives are in a fragile truce after a year of unprecedented chaos.
Even among natural parties of government, politics can turn to junk all too quickly. At the root of Republican and Tory dysfunction are two quixotic projects, Make America Great Again and Brexit, which never added up and which needed two hucksters in Donald Trump and Boris Johnson to blag their way through the contradictions until it all caught up with them.
It’s a bad policy portent, because stalling investment will make the energy transition from fossil fuels to renewables even more contested than it already is. And isn’t this a dangerous precedent for an affluent nation of commodity exporters, whose dominant customers might decide that they too want a more reasonable price for what they buy?
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