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'Big stick' energy plan is bad politics as well as bad policy

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"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake," Napoleon Bonaparte is supposed to have said.

Labor leader Bill Shorten and energy spokesman Mark Butler must have this mantra on the highest rotation their sound systems will permit right now.

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Ben Potter writes on energy, climate change and innovation, and has been Washington correspondent, opinion editor and companies editor. Connect with Ben on Twitter. Email Ben at bpotter@afr.com

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