In its budget presentation last Tuesday, the Coalition
government gave no mention of climate change or clean energy, despite banking
on its theme of “innovation”, a nimble and agile Australia and a “new economy”.
When the campaign was finally launched, Turnbull – the man
who said he would never lead a party that didn’t take climate change seriously
– saw no reason to correct the record.
By Monday, the first day of the campaign, the man voted in
at least partly because he could speak in whole sentences, was reduced to one
and two-word exclamations: “More jobs ….. growth …. Australia,” I heard him say
on ABC radio.
Things actually did get worse. The budget contained no
additional funding for the government’s emissions buy-back program, just
confirmation that it intends to strip $1.3 billion from the legislated budget
of the Australian Renewable Energy Agency.
Later that week, it emerged that the Climate Change
Authority – the pesky institution that the Coalition had tried to abolish, but
which has now been stacked with Coalition appointees – had decided to censor
itself and delay two key reports until after the poll.
Read the RenewEconomy
story - “Election off to bad start, but Sex Party supports clean energy.”
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