Analysis: Now it’s the Coalition’s turn to walk both sides of the street on climate | CroweDM
Voters were told at the last election that Labor had one message on climate change in the south of the country and a different one in the north.
The Deputy Prime Minister was also in Rockhampton but did not join Morrison at his press conference. In fact, Joyce rarely joins the announcements about major hydrogen projects because some of the Nationals are openly sceptical about whether they will work. The challenge for Labor is to avoid the trap laid bare at the last election when it tried to sing two songs at once about coal exports and the opening of the Adani mine in the Galilee Basin in Queensland. Voters in the southern states were lured with talk about cutting emissions; those in the north heard a happy tune about jobs and coal exports.
Whitehaven Coal chief Paul Flynn warned that the Labor policy could be a “carbon levy by stealth” but his full quote was that some in Labor seemed to want to turn the policy into such a levy. He cannot be sure exactly how this would work because it would be up to the regulator after the election.