Seven years ago, Greg Combet, then a Labor minister, implemented a carbon price in a minority parliament, an experience so arduous it helped curtail his political career. Now, safely outside political life, he looks on with bemusement about where the climate and energy debate has washed up.
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| Former Labor minister Greg Combet says if the world is to do what is necessary to contain warming at 2C, then almost all coal-fired power will be gone by 2040. |
On Tuesday, Combet launched a new report by the Industrial Relations Research Centre at the University of New South Wales investigating how countries such as Australia can achieve a fair transition for coal workers displaced as the economy decarbonises.
It got a bit lost in the wash of the week – let’s face it, it’s hard for substance to compete with the rolling spectacle of political dysfunction – but it’s an interesting bit of analysis funded by the CFMEU’s mining and energy division.
Read the piece by Katharine Murphy from The Guardian - “Instead of 'fair dinkum' power, how about some 'fair dinkum' action?”
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