The costs of climate change will hit everyone's hip pocket

The NEG.

NEG is for "negligible" if not "negligent" action in this age of hotting Earth.

Firefighters worked on 79 bushfires across NSW
on Wednesday, with 32 burning uncontained.

NEG doesn’t encourage investment in renewables. It doesn’t cut coal pollution. It doesn’t reduce power bills. It can’t be easily changed. And the final design hasn’t been settled by the Coalition party room where more handouts for coral-killing coal are in the offing.

Labor, like the Greens, should dump it.

Read what Bob Brown has to say in The Age - “The costs of climate change will hit everyone's hip pocket.”

Welcome to politics' new three-letter-word: the NEG

It's only a suggestion. But … if you're trying to convince the voting public that your new energy and climate policy has not in any way been dictated by a string-pulling Tony Abbott – prince of partisan brawling, the wrecker-in-chief, the original Dr No – maybe don't call it NEG.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced his shiny
new energy and climate policy before the media on Tuesday

The national energy guarantee, which will replace the orphaned and unloved clean energy target, will force energy companies to meet standards mandating reliability and emissions reduction, making it the Rorschach blot of energy policy: you can read into it whatever you like!

You might just have to squint pretty hard.

The Prime Minister announced the NEG on Facebook with a video in which he speaks directly to voters. He looks nice. He's wearing a blue suit, not his Q&A leather jacket – read into that what you will.

Read Jacqueline Malley’s story in today’s Melbourne Age - “Welcome to politics' new three-letter-word: the NEG.”