MORRISON REANNOUNCES LABOR POLICY

In a desperate attempt to distract from their chaos and dysfunction, the Morrison Government is re-hashing Labor policy, again.

Labor announced on the 19th of August that a Shorten Labor Government will help households and businesses get a better deal on their power prices – overhauling electricity offers available to consumers and scrapping outdated deals so Australians pay less for their power and can more easily compare offers.  

 

Malcolm Turnbull and Josh Frydenberg followed Labor’s lead, backing in the policy on the 20th of August.

 

For over two months now this has been a bipartisan position but today’s bizarre re-announcement by the Government shows just how policy bereft this hopeless Morrison Government is.

 

For five years, the Liberals have done nothing but make their energy crisis worse by playing ideological anti-renewable politics with energy.

 

Their policy paralysis, dictated by the hard-right, have led to power prices skyrocketing for Australian households and businesses. At the same time, the government’s own data shows carbon pollution rising all the way to 2030, and investors are crying out for national energy policy to support investment in renewables post 2020.

 

As Deloitte Access Economics Director Chris Richardson said in this morning’s papers “the current government’s inability to craft a compromise within its own ranks — leaves Australia locked into an investment landscape that looks more Third World than First World.” 

 

Only Labor will deliver energy policy certainty that will start to bring down power prices, and pollution.