Peter Dutton’s naked politicking over power prices is as cynical as it is calculating
has been toning down the polarisation, the aggro, the rolling contention. Dutton’s objective is to make sure things get hectic. A sustained cost of living crisis, and the lack of simple solutions to it, is an accelerant to stoke voter disaffection about the incumbent government.
Bear in mind this is the same Coalition that scrapped a market mechanism to govern the energy transition and replaced that framework with its own Soviet-style government interventions, including, but not limited to the “big stick” aimed directly at price gouging energy companies.to break up private companies. There was also that taxpayer-funded underwriting program , where the Coalition would determine types of new investment in power generation.
But everyone in the chamber caught a glimpse of the future. A government with the temerity to inconvenience the gas industry with a modest intervention is a government prepared to walk a path towards the end of fossil fuels.
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