Climate politics seems set to sizzle in 2017. But
will there be policy light, as well as political heat? Only a matter of days
after it announced a long-awaited review of climate policies, the Turnbull
government is beset with ill-disciplined and shrill dissent. The main cause of
the angst being indulgently expressed by some in the Coalition's ideologically
blinkered faction is the suggestion by Environment and Energy Minister Josh
Frydenberg, increasingly seen as a future prime minister, that the review might
recommend carbon pricing for power companies.
The indignation is somewhat ironic, given the Liberals'
hardliners are generally strongly in favour of market solutions. So is The Age,
which is why we have been arguing for years that a market-based price on carbon
emissions must be central to climate policy.
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