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Malcolm Turnbull: what even is the point?

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Adam Bandt MP
Federal Member for Melbourne
8 December 2016

Following the Prime Minister's latest capitulation to Cory Bernardi and the climate deniers on the backbench in ruling out an emissions intensity scheme for the electricity sector, Greens Climate Change & Energy spokesperson, Adam Bandt, today asked: "What even is the point of Malcolm Turnbull?"

An emissions intensity scheme for the electricity sector

FOR

AGAINST

Chief Scientist

The Turnbull government

Climate Change Authority

 

CSIRO

 

Australian Energy Market Commission

 

Energy Networks Australia

 

AGL Energy

 

South Australian government

 

Grattan Institute

 

Cath Tanna, Energy Australia Managing Director

 

Dame Quentin Bryce, former Governor-General

 

Danny Price, Frontier Economics Managing Director

 

Mr Geoffrey Cousins, ACF President

 

Ms Jillian Broadbent, CEFC Chair

 

Australian Labor Party

 

Australian Greens

 

Malcolm Turnbull

 

Note: Both Labor and the Greens took different electricity reform mechanisms to the election, but both were based on setting emission intensity levels for the electricity sector.

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Adam Bandt MP
Federal Member for Melbourne
8 December 2016
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