Failure to act now on energy policy will only trigger Groundhog Day

Katharine Murphy.

While politics never sleeps, and the verbiage from Canberra never stops, there has been a strange sense of suspended animation about the last couple of weeks, apart from a mild frenzy on Friday, as rumours circulated of early elections, cancelled parliamentary sittings, and general plague and pestilence.

The reason for Friday’s startle reflex is, of course, the return of the federal parliament for the blockbuster spring session next week.

The reasons for the period of suspended animation before the startle reflex are also obvious.

All the controversial issues the government has been spinning its wheels on for months, or warily circling, will hit between now and Christmas.

Read Katharine Murphy’s story on The Guardian - “Failure to act now on energy policy will only trigger Groundhog Day.”