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| Katharine Murphy - a 'gutless capitulation' by Josh Frydenberg. |
Just 24 hours of controversy from entirely predictable
quarters and a carefully calibrated process to try to engineer a truce in
Australia’s utterly wretched climate politics has been all but abandoned by its
architects.
Josh Frydenberg has gone in the space of 24 hours from
saying quite clearly the government would consider an emissions intensity
trading scheme for the electricity sector to trying to pretend he said no such
thing.
The retreat is, frankly, unseemly.
Actually, the retreat is more than unseemly, it’s pathetic –
and the consequences of it stretch far beyond yet another apparent failure to
do what needs to be done to ensure our economy makes an orderly transition to
the carbon-constrained world that the Turnbull government willingly accepted
when it signed Australia up to the Paris international climate agreement this
time 12 months ago.
Read the comment on The
Guardian by political editor, Katharine Murphy - “What an extraordinary, gutless capitulation by Josh Frydenberg.”
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