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Departing Swan takes aim at Coalition “right wing thugs” over carbon price

Sophie Vorrath12 February 201812 February 2018

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Investor confidence could be smashed without additional detail

Oliver Yates23 October 201723 October 2017

This plan to provide a plan is almost the worst outcome possible for investment certainty. If more detail doesn't emerge soon, it could be as bad for renewables as...

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Abbott 1, Consumer 0. Turnbull’s energy fudge locks in high prices

Giles Parkinson17 October 201717 October 2017

If one thing is clear from the Coalition's new energy policy announcement today, it is that Tony Abbott has won, and consumers have lost. Even in the most optimistic...

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Policy will be a mess until Turnbull sacrifices Coalition’s climate goat

Giles Parkinson10 October 201710 October 2017

Is this really what Malcolm Turnbull signed up for? Short of sacrificing this particular climate goat, he will be obliged to defend the indefensible, the outright rejection of climate...

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Anti-jobs Abbott digs in against renewables, despite public backlash

Leigh Ewbank28 November 201628 November 2016

Tony Abbott uses Sky News interview to attack renewable energy in what could be seen as an affront to Malcolm Turnbull’s leadership position.

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Trump as president will be little different to Abbott (or Turnbull) as PM

Giles Parkinson21 November 201621 November 2016

Trump's position on clean energy and climate change is little different to that of Tony Abbott's, whose policies have been unchanged by Malcolm Turnbull. But Trump's success has unleashed...

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Attacks on wind and solar policies turn to state initiatives

Giles Parkinson26 September 2016

Having obliterated almost all the effective federal climate and renewables policies, the focus is now switching to state-based targets, using the old arguments of higher costs and little abatement....

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July renewables market update: prices plateau short of penalty cap

Marco Stella3 August 2016

Price rise in LGC market halted in July - less a result of the renewed anti-renewables campaign and more reflection of fact that spot market sitting within $7 of...