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"Australia now has a government and parliament wanting timely transition to net
zero. We have a government and parliament wanting to build Australia as the
renewable energy superpower of the zero-carbon world economy. For the time
being, we have favourable international settings for using our opportunity.
The government of Australia has embraced this superpower narrative, taken some
big steps towards supporting its emergence, and articulated sound principles
for guiding further policy development.
But Australians in business and the community wanting to make large efforts to
turn opportunity into reality find themselves in a tangle of policy uncertainty
and contradiction.
The source of the problem is the abolition of carbon pricing in 2014. Since
then, the Commonwealth government has worked within constraints that rule out
success.
We can make a start towards net zero and becoming a renewable energy superpower
without moving the constraints, but we can’t get far. This is a problem for any
government of Australia, and not only for the current Labor government. We will
not rise sustainably out of the post-pandemic dog days until we get energy
policy right."
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
