You would have missed it if you were relying on mainstream media, but Labor leader Bill Shorten did actually mention clean energy and climate policies in his scene-setting speech for 2018, which may well turn out to be an election year.
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| Labor's Bill Shorten - mentions clean energy, but will he stop the Adani mine? |
The mainstream media focus was largely on unions, pay, and the proposed integrity commission, but in a much-missed contrast to a government focused on being a major exporter of war machines, backing carbon capture and storage, and backing new coal generation and new thermal coal mines, Shorten had an alternative.
“If we want lower prices and more secure energy we have to back the transition to renewables,” he said in his speech to the National Press Club on Tuesday.
Read the RenewEconomy story by Giles Parkinson - "Shorten hails cheap wind and solar, but will he stop Adani?"
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