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"I’m struggling to find a better summary of the Coalition’s election campaign
than “nervous evil”. Normal evil is, for example, Tony Abbott loudly announcing
during an entire election campaign that he plans to kill off the carbon pricing
scheme in Australia (that turned out to be relatively popular evil, too).
Nervous evil is different. It’s the same wrecking, callous, destructive intent.
But it is ashamed. It is anxious about the optics of doing a huge Godzilla
stomp through carefully constructed climate policy. It is quiet, hesitant and
almost shy about the flamethrower that’s hidden behind their back.
You can see this in a range of issues that have emerged in the election
campaign. Peter Dutton hopped around a variety of positions when it comes to
axing or not axing tax breaks for EVs. The nuclear power campaign was
unceremoniously dropped. The domestic gas reservation scheme put a friendly
face on their plans to deregulate fossil gas expansion.
I can’t recall any major, consistent or loudly announced attacks on renewable
energy. As I’ve discussed before here, this was a right-wing campaign forced to
dress up in moderate clothes by the embarrasing entrace of Donald Trump (whose
talent got Canada’s centre-left party re-elected a few days ago).
In one of their final acts before election day on Saturday, the Coalition have
dropped probably one of their most materially significant climate positions
before anybody has any chance to properly digest it.
It’s evil, but it’s nervous evil – they hid this until the last moment
possible. The Smart Energy Council has a list of programs the party announced
they’ll be axing as part of their ‘costings‘ released late on Thursday.
● $2.3 billion Cheaper Home Batteries Program. Axed.
● New Vehicle Efficiency Standards. Axed.
● $26 billion Future Made in Australia Program. Axed.
● $19 billion Rewiring the Nation Program. Axed
● $16 billion National Reconstruction Fund. Axed.
● Net Zero Economy Agency. Axed.
● Tax discounts for electric vehicles. Axed.
● Production Tax Credits for renewable hydrogen and critical minerals. Axed.
● Funding to Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water.
Slashed.
● Additional funding to ARENA and Clean Energy Finance Corporation. Stopped."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
