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By Aaron Nielsen, published 24/2/2010You would think Peter Garrett would be trying to stem the tide of scandals unfolding from his portfolio.
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Like the clunky schools assembly hall program, which is foisting unwanted and in some cases educationally disruptive facilities on schools that did not need or ask for them.
What a tragic waste - when these big dollars had they been steered towards the design and construction of serious renewable energy and transmission infrastructure (as advocated in my book last year, 'Crunch Time') could be starting to make a real difference to CO2 emissions now, as well as generating real well-paid jobs. Meanwhile our private sector renewable energy sector stagnates, killed by the market-distorting over-generous roof solar cell promotion policies. Another Mickey-Mouse saga of good environmental policies killed by bad feel-good policies.
And what a policy mess this house energy audit story speaks of! No wonder climate change denialism is proliferating, for the Rudd government in almost every possible way is debasing the coinage of real climate policy action and giving climate change mitigation a bad name - a point well made by Aaron Nielsen in this important article.