PM once lauded plan by Frontier Economics’ Danny Price’s plan as a ‘cheaper,greener, smarter scheme’ before it was attacked by Kevin RuddThe economist who helped devise the Coalition’s climate policy says Labor’s new-style electricity emissions trading scheme is precisely what he designed for Malcolm Turnbull in 2009 and mirrors what the Coalition’s Direct Action plan is likely to become to meet Australia’s greenhouse targets.
But despite the policy similarities, and the government is persisting with a Tony Abbott-style anti-carbon tax scare campaign,which a main climate thinktank has labelled “misleading” and “dishonest”.
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Source: theguardian.com