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The cost of Green-left purity is too high
The Greens must put pragmatism before ideology to pass the safeguard mechanism or risk another 2010-style dead end.
Australia has a clear-cut carbon emissions reduction goal of net zero by 2050. But in a complex economy the route to get there is not the simple straight line that the Greens demand. Their price for supporting the key safeguard mechanism in the Senate is a crashing halt to all new coal and gas development.
Even the ACF has urged Adam Bandt to compromise with the government. Alex Ellinghausen
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