Abbott adds energy crisis to list of things that are his fault

The Guardian’s Katherine Murphy gives the nation a “history of energy policy” lecture on Insiders, yesterday:

In terms of culprits of what’s gone wrong in the energy policy in Australia over the last 10 years, it is wrong, it is not only misleading, wrong, to say that Labor are the cause of what’s occurred.

Labor is not to blame for the energy crisis? Its devotion to unstable renewable power has nothing to do with it? The Australian, March 21:

South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill has lashed out over the state’s energy crisis, claiming Labor’s relentless pursuit of renewables had no impact on the power grid and independent ­advice to government in 2009 warning of destabilisation from increased wind power had been proven wrong.

Labor’s crackdown on gas exploration isn’t contributing in any way to the energy crisis? The Australian, August 31 last year:

The Andrews government has abandoned a ­national approach by announcing a ban on fracking and extraction of coal-seam, shale and so-called tight gas, ­while Victoria’s manufacturers are crying out for more gas ­supply.

Murph is going to set us all straight. The Guardian Australia political editor on Insiders, yesterday:

The specific problems we’re talking about in the energy market right now, here is what happened ...

Here it comes ... Murphy on Insiders, continued:

Tony Abbott removed a market mechanism ...

We suspected that was coming ... Murphy’s eulogy for Julia Gillard’s carbon price on Guardian Australia, July 17, 2014:

I have been a supporter of carbon pricing since I first understood it was a valid public policy response to constraining carbon pollution.

The then opposition minister’s promise to the Australian people. Abbott in Sydney, February 27, 2011:

If the Coalition wins the next election, you can be absolutely confident that there will be no mining tax and no carbon tax.

After all, he wouldn’t want to make Julia Gillard’s mistake. The then-prime minister on Channel Ten News, August 16, 2010:

There will be no carbon tax under the government I lead.

OK, OK, he messed up there ... Abbott on SBS World News, September 6, 2013:

No cuts to health, no cuts to education, no cuts to the ABC and SBS.

But Murphy’s continued longing for the hated carbon tax astounds us. Guardian Australia, July 17, 2014:

I know Abbott went to the election promising to scrap this policy. Of course the prime minister should be congratulated for upholding his election promises as a point of principle. But given he’s broken so many other election promises, I wish he’d added this to the list. This would have been a terrific election commitment to break.

Maybe Murphy will get some sympathy at one of Benjamin Law’s leftie dinner parties ... The Fairfax columnist in Good Weekend, Saturday:

Recently I was at a dinner party in Sydney where the guests were people like me.

That’s the most Fairfax sentence ever written ... Good Weekend, continued:

... inner-city professionals ... working in the media or arts ...