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Old 14th Jul 2011, 03:07
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The government's entire supply side case collapsed when it abandoned any pretence that the tax would clean up power stations and instead turned to the heart of the Coalition Direct Action policy to do this.
After months of denying it, the government leaked that it had been secretly negotiating with the brown coal power generators to pay for a switch from coal to gas.
The reason of course is that the carbon tax will fail to achieve this objective.
In short, the ALP's decision to use Direct Action incentives to address the power sector was complete capitulation on two fronts.
Not only will a carbon tax fail to clean up any power stations, but the Direct Action approach of targeted incentives will work to convert coal to gas.
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