A clean energy target is not 'unconscionable', Tony Abbott. Wrecking climate policy is

Tony Abbott has been an implacable force against rational climate action in this country for the best part of a decade, and nothing has changed.

‘Like an armchair general summoning a militia, using his
favoured media proxies as loud hailers, the former PM
has seeded a story that he might cross the floor.’

Having destroyed one set of energy policies designed to achieve orderly economic transformation and emissions reduction, and created a monumental policy botch-up as a consequence, he’s determined to destroy another.

After warming his vocal cords for months, Abbott now says it would be “unconscionable” for Malcolm Turnbull to “go further down the renewables path”. By this he means implement a clean energy target.

Let’s be very clear about this.

What is actually unconscionable, and I don’t invoke the word lightly, is Abbott’s own behaviour.

Let’s also be very clear about what is happening right now.

Read Katharine Murphy’s comment on The Guardian - “A clean energy target is not 'unconscionable', Tony Abbott. Wrecking climate policy is.”