Opposition Leader Bill Shorten will not help Abbott to gut the Renewable Energy Target
Bill Shorten vows to fight to save renewable energy target (273 comments) Labor leader says opposition is not prepared to help gut a scheme which has delivered investment and jobs Katharine Murphy, deputy political editor theguardian.com, Friday 10 October 2014 Bill Shorten says Labor will offer a helping hand to aluminium by exempting the sector from Australia’s renewable energy target – but he says the opposition is not prepared to help the Abbott government gut a scheme which has delivered significant new investment, and created jobs……….http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/oct/10/bill-shorten-vows-to-fight-to-save-renewable-energy-targetComment by Alpo88 10 October 2014
The RET must be as core to Labor as Medicare and funding for education. This government doesn’t deserve any help or compromise…. it just deserves the sack!…. The sooner, the better. Aluminium smelters should be only given a temporary reprieve if the socioeconomic issues involved are truly relevant (a clear rationale must be made public, by the way). But they should be asked to prepare and follow a gradual program of adaptation that must be concluded by a given date.
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