CLEAN ENERGY: Confiscation under a cloak of scientific respectability*

The Australian Government’s recently released plan, entitled Securing a Clean Energy Future, is a very depressing document.
When reading it, you realise that the government which authorised it knew that it was lying. It has enthusiastically adopted one of Dr Goebbels’ notorious dictums: “The bigger the lie, the more people will believe it.”
We have space here to talk about only some of the more amusing lies in the document. One of these is the projection of an a…

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