With Australia’s lived experience of global heating, you would think we’d have moved past grown men staging hyperbolic encounters with invisible things
‘Morrison now disdains his own safeguards mechanism as … effectively [Labor’s] carbon tax’, writes Katharine Murphy.‘Morrison now disdains his own safeguards mechanism as … effectively [Labor’s] carbon tax’, writes Katharine Murphy.f you’ve been paying attention over the past decade or so, you may have noticed that opponents of climate action in Australia spend a lot of time talking about things that don’t exist.
So every time one of the current generation of Coalition politicians utters the words carbon “tax” and Labor in the same sentence, understand this: they are lying, and worse, they are fully aware they are lying. Albanese shouldn’t have taken dictation from a shock jock. Given the whole encounter was entirely about Ray, boosting Ray, to Ray’s audience – the Labor leader should have told Hadley exactly where he could shove his dictation.
As well as grinding away on the great nothingness that is the never-implemented carbon tax that will never be implemented,You’ll be shocked, I know. This one involves acarbon tax. Confusingly, this new Labor carbon tax was actually legislated many years ago by Abbott. And again, for the record, Labor’s use of the Coalition’s safeguards mechanism to achieve its intended purpose contains a further safeguard. The current policy says big polluters, like oil, gas and coal operations, will not face more stringent emissions reduction requirements in Australia than their competitors do overseas, which is why every big business group in the country has welcomed Labor’s policy.
But there are two problems with Boyce’s truth-telling. 1: That’s not what Liberal candidates are saying in North Sydney, Wentworth, or Goldstein; and 2: it’s not what Morrison told the United Nations last year so that old mate BoJo would stop nagging him about saving the planet.When the prime minister was, Morrison pretended Boyce didn’t say the 2050 commitment was a crock. “Our candidate was talking about how we get there,” Morrison said. “He wasn’t talking about the commitment itself”.
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