CANBERRA OBSERVED After the fires, we still need an economy and to power it*

Undoubtedly the fires of the summer of 2020 have altered the political conversation in Australia about climate change, but to what extent and what will be the actual response?

If media groupthink is any guide, the Morrison Government has not just been blistered but needs to be contrite for years of negligence that allegedly has contributed to the ferocity and scale of the disaster.

But it is also true that the Coalition won the federal election on the back of an energy policy that advocate…

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