Commentary
Most people agree that energy policy in Australia has been a “failure” for the last 20 years. Dig a little deeper and you will find that what experts disagree on is which direction it failed in.
Some believe it failed to prioritise climate change enough, and others too much. Some believe that it failed to enable the private sector, while others that it failed to control it.
Certainly, energy policy has been a significant issue for all six prime ministers Australia has had over the last 20 years—right back to the centre-right Liberal Party’s proposed emissions trading scheme in the early 2000s under Prime Minister John Howard….