While Anthony Albanese was visiting the US president in Washington, Peter Dutton took another trip to Nelson Bay. Here’s why.
When Labor won last year’s election, Anthony Albanese declared that the climate wars were over. But the Coalition differs. The climate wars are only just beginning.
The government, said Dutton, is “completely and utterly driven by their desire to get to 82 per cent” cuts to emissions by 2030, “a reckless figure that they’ve pulled out of the air”.Rehearsing a line that you’ll be hearing frequently between now and the next election, Dutton said that Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen wants “to destroy the environment, to save the planet”.is designed to generate enough electricity to power 4.2 million homes.
“I’ve become the doyen of the protest movement,” Joyce tells me. “All these people who, in another life, wouldn’t vote for me now want me to turn up at their protests” in Labor-held seats, “and I will do that for them”.Joyce was the author of the original Coalition climate wars. The Joyce-Abbott climate wars set Australia back by a decade, but helped the Coalition win and hold office for that decade.
Peter Dutton doesn’t expect that problems with the rollout of new energy infrastructure alone are going to put the Coalition onto the Treasury benches. But it is the Coalition’s newfound power playground.Albanese already has acknowledged community concern. And he’s promised that his government will do a better job of listening. But if the government slows the rollout, it sabotages its own renewables targets.
“They are already having to tighten up their spending, they’re struggling to pay the bills as mortgages go up and prices go up, their lives are completely and utterly removed from the capitals and, fairly or not, they see the PM swanning around,” says the senior Liberal.
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