So, there was an ‘extra’ bit with Barrie Cassidy pondering the consequences of Abbott’s behaviour for energy policy (compare coorey article on same topic in AFR).
Programme itself opens with interview/intersplice with the headbutt guy in Hobart
Sadly no music over the top of this- too controversial? Could have had
“Can’t get you out of my head” by Kylie Minogue or “Headbutt” The King Blues
Then Kiwis and their election is discussed
Then ALP deputy leader Tanya Plibersek (super slick at what she does – on top of her brief etc) on same sex marriage, universities, and then energy policy at 19.50.
She talks about emissions intensity scheme/clean energy target as ‘number two approach’, happy to compromise to introduce this, gas reservation policy, more renewables.
The problem is all inside the liberal and national parties, small rump of people who are absolute wreckers.
Are you prepared to walk back a bit from renewables in spirit of compromise?
She doesn’t say yes or no, says already compromising, renewables becoming cheaper than coal – they are the pathway
Do you need to go to 50 per cent so fast?
People would argue over whether its so fast… Certainty and investment when Labor was in charge…
Followed by the musical montage “A targeted threat’- about, energy policy and the Abbott/Turnbull stoush, the song – Charlie Puth Attention
Murphy – Abbott is doing frontrunning (she wrote on this earlier in the week…)
Abbott is building a poison pill into the process – if Turnbull builds a bipartisan consensus, what country needs, Abbott will dress it up as betrayal of conservative values.
Fran Kelly – AEMO says reliability problem is this and next summer (coal fired power stations take YEARS to build)…
then clip of Rod Simms of ACCC at the National Press Club saying no single policy will delviery cheqapness, reliability and emissions reductions…
More headbutt stuff from 37 and a half minutes
Hilarious Cory Bernardi Streisand Effect thing
Malcolm Roberts is toast, surely.
North Korea – yeah, we’re all doomed.
Cartoons were awesome
Overall – 9 out of 10.. Insiders at its best…
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