Thread by @docbaty

Let’s move on to @secco’s article (thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/13758/2u… - unlocked) "Energy figures misused by Coalition campaign”

Angus Taylor has some form in this area…

#satpaper

@secco "The Coalition’s latest scare campaign over Labor’s climate policy highlights the real mess surrounding adequate planning for a shift towards renewables. Half of the experts cited say they were misquoted.”

[It should not be the case that this is allowed to be normal.]

"Tony Wood, one of Australia’s leading energy experts, prefers to think that Scott Morrison was simply confused. “Let’s assume,” he says, “it wasn’t deliberate.”

...Others have called it a lie.”

#satpaper

"The confusion, if that’s what it was, happened at a media conference on Tuesday, the same day the Murdoch tabloids reported government “modelling”…”

[I won’t repeat what that modelling purported to show, because it’s rubbish.]

[But let’s take a moment to look at that first sentence: Angus Taylor and/or the PM’s office fed a story to the Murdoch-owned press ahead of time, and then spent the day talking about it. If politics is a game it’s hard to tell whether the media are commentators or the ball.]

"Given the Morrison government’s track record of coming up with dodgy climate costings at election time, and its refusal to provide details of its calculations, the claim was greeted with wide scepticism.”

[Not just at election time.]

#satpaper

"The government’s so-called modelling was just a press release, containing unsubstantiated numbers, calculated on the basis of a dubious interpretation of Labor’s policy. Wood, among others, suggests it was a “back of the envelope” exercise carried out in Taylor’s office."

Anyway, have a read - we’ve had to endure 9 years of this crap and it’s really time it ends.