5 thoughts on “Tony Abbott draws line freezing MRET scheme”

  1. Tones is really sounding serious now in the historic week ending with Trump. Wonder if Cory Bernardi, the Nationals and PHON will start to assemble a grouping to the right of centre? Maybe Tony has been reading your Renewable Energy category.
    www.warwickhughes.com/blog/?cat=19

  2. If Trump does most of what he promises then the direct effects will be felt in Australia as Tony points out. Although the indirect effects via China may well be bigger.

    China is protectionist and I don’t expect Trump to have much success in bringing down those barriers, and will resort to tariffs and barriers to China exports, which will hit our commodity exports.

    Not to mention put Australia in a bind when it comes to Trump’s preferred bi-lateral trade pacts, which China may well characterise as ‘them or us’.

  3. Why oh why didn’t Tony do something about it when he had the chance?

    One advantage of the American system is that presidential candidates have to sell their positions for a year and a half before the election – so they have a lot of momentum to get things done the minute they arrive. They also have a free choice of cabinet members, and can pick people eager to get things done in every portfolio.

    Tony was a fantastic opposition leader hammering away at the three or four worst policies of the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd administration. And when became Prime Minister in 2013, he did the easy bits straight away – abolished the carbon tax and reinstated border protection. But he seemed to think he had forever to fix the budget and the crazy renewable energy boondoggles, and he went all weak at the knees on free speech. He didn’t realise he only had one chance, which was to do it all fast and have the results on the board before the next election.

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