Tim Watts (Gellibrand, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

It is supported by: the Business Council of Australia, BHP, AGL, EnergyAustralia, the National Farmers' Federation, Origin Energy, the Australian Energy Markets Commission, CSIRO, the Chief Scientist, the Climate Change Authority, the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, Danny Price—Malcolm Turnbull's former energy adviser—state governments, Labor and Liberal alike, and many other energy stakeholders. Yet this government is utterly paralysed in the face of this effective and widely supported policy response. Indeed, in December of last year, when the Minister for the Environment and Energy merely floated the idea of considering the adoption of this popular, effective policy to reduce both power bills and carbon emissions, it was shot down by the Turnbull government in hours.

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