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Danny Price

Why Cannon-Brookes shouldn’t control Australia’s energy future

It’s unsettling to have a billionaire amateur deciding national energy policy - especially when it means overturning the core principles of the NEM.

The offer by Brookfield and Mike Cannon-Brookes to buy AGL and decarbonise the business faster than even AGL’s recently accelerated plan vindicates the federal government’s emissions reduction plan.

It is fair to say that this was probably not the pair’s intention.

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Danny Price is managing director of Frontier Economics.

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