Energy policy fails to enlighten

Paul Bongiorno has written, “Ten years of brutal, opportunistic politics has left this nation with no credible energy policy” (“Time for new tricks, not old dogma”, March 18-24). He’s right, of course, but let’s be absolutely clear. Ten years of brutal, opportunistic and disgraceful political game-playing by the Coalition, while in opposition and in government, a compliant, if not fawning, media and a gullible electorate have combined since 2009 to leave Australia with no credible energy policy. At least there are signs that the electorate is now awake to the threat posed to energy supply and security by the ineptitude and hypocrisy of the federal government. But the nonsense continues. Should we have to imagine, for example, the spectacle of the prime minister of the second-largest LPG-producing country on the planet going cap in hand to the mining companies asking that they might put a bit of gas aside for us?

– Raymond Brooks, Carlton North, Vic