TIME FOR MORRISON TO BRING BACK NATIONAL ENERGY GUARANTEE

Over the weekend the voters of the historically Liberal seat of Wentworth sent the Morrison Government a clear and undeniable message  - they have had enough of Tony Abbott and the hard-right of the Coalition dictating climate and energy policy.

The Prime Minister needs to listen to the Australian people, Labor, business and experts and reverse his Government’s decision to drop the National Energy Guarantee.

Returning to the table to negotiate with Labor a bipartisan energy policy that will support the growth of renewable energy, bring down carbon pollution and bring down electricity prices for Australian households and businesses is in the national interest.

Several Liberal MPs have also made this point, with Trent Zimmerman saying “we are going to have to go to the next election with a clear plan to meet our Paris Targets”.

Yet the Prime Minister and his Treasurer insist there is nothing to see here, and their ignoring of climate change will continue.

Rather than new Energy Minister Angus Taylor’s proclamations that he would not “even try” to deliver energy policy certainty, it is now clearer than ever that the Prime Minister needs to act on his words from the 15th of August when he said “Australians want all three, and that's what the National Energy Guarantee delivers.”