The Coalition government has launched a brazen scare campaign, based on recent power outages in South Australia, over energy. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's team is, if you will, playing base politics with baseload electricity, shamelessly seeking to paint the opposition's push for increased use of renewable energy as a route to stratospheric power prices and chronic unreliability.
Mr Turnbull and his increasingly shrill and histrionic colleagues – a Treasurer using a chunk of coal in Parliament is unbecoming and gormless – indeed have a recent political blueprint. Tony Abbott, the man Mr Turnbull tore down by promising, well, to not be anything like Tony Abbott, won government in part by running a similarly ridiculous and untrue campaign. Mr Abbott's was centred on misrepresenting as a "great big carbon tax" Julia Gillard's Labor government's policy of putting a price on carbon emissions, one of the key causes of dangerous global warming and a big by-product of coal-fired electricity generation.
Read the Editorial in today’s Melbourne Age - “Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's power scare is desperate rubbish.”
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