Australia’s muddled energy policy and the roadmap to nowhere.

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Political editor Katharine Murphy talks to environment editor Adam Morton about a huge week in energy policy and why Australia appears to be making an energy roadmap without a destination

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/audio/2020/may/25/australias-muddled-energy-policy-and-the-roadmap-to-nowhere

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Reported by Katharine Murphy and Adam Morton. Hosted and produced by Laura Murphy-Oates. The executive producers are Miles Martignoni and Gabrielle Jackson

Mon 25 May 2020 03.30 AEST

A version of this conversation first aired on the Australian Politics Live podcast.
You can read some of Katharine Murphy’s and Adam Morton’s reporting on these issues here:

Covid commission boss Nev Power steps back at gas company amid conflict of interest concerns
Australia’s gas and electricity producers push back on government intervention
Leaked Covid-19 commission report calls for Australian taxpayers to underwrite gas industry expansion
Business, unions and green groups call for sustainable Covid-19 recovery with clean energy transition
New nuclear technologies to be examined in planning Australia’s energy mix
Angus Taylor says it is not Australian government policy to achieve net zero emissions by 2050
Fossil fuel industry applauds Coalition climate measures that support carbon capture and storage
Coalition reveals new emissions reduction measures, including paying polluters to stay under cap


Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian