Just when you thought the climate wars were over, they have erupted again. Within hours of climate change and energy minister Chris Bowen announcing the detail of the safeguard mechanism for the big carbon emitters, the Coalition and the Greens attacked it.
Will the Coalition and the Greens sit together in the Senate to vote down the enabling bill and the disallowable regulation? They could wistfully reminisce about the day in 2009 when they combined to defeat the Rudd government’s emissions trading legislation.
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Craig Emerson is managing director of Emerson Economics. He is a distinguished fellow at the ANU, director of the Australian APEC Study Centre at RMIT and adjunct professor at Victoria University’s College of Business.
