Can't even recall his name!

Yep.

Famous for "Stop the Boats"

I stopped paying attention a couple of years ago, to be fair.

Morrison? Isn't that Abbott/Howard?

He is pretty well known domestically

Essentially Malcolm Turnbull got rolled in a leadership spill

And instead of voting for the dude who wanted him gone he voted for one of his cabinet

The fact that the Labor party is still somewhat beholden to the Aus working class will hopefully mean that they understand that they can't go full SJW.

They still preference the Greens before the Libs\

But I admit I'm not paying attention.

And the greens are full blown radical lefties

To be honest, probably all my friends vote green by now.

I wouldn't mind the greens if they were actually environmentalists, but they sabotaged the market-based emissions scheme, and roll a whole lot of bullshit into what should be a pretty simple platform.

I liked Bob Brown as a person, but couldn't abide that he was constantly going on about everywhere but Australia.

Well people like Sarah Hanson-Young push the greens ever further left

There is no reason why environmentalism needs to be left wing, IMO.

In fact, it seems a logical cause for someone who considers themselves conservative.

Conservatives would be fine with it but the amount of govt subsidies given to renewables makes it not feasible

Alan Jones is on about that stuff all the time

What do you mean?

Also i need to make this clear. I am not in defense of the elites. Just giving out a question. If it sounds like im defending then you dont understand the concept that i for one aint liking the playbook they use

The tech needs a kcikstart before the market can take oevr.

And Oz is the one place where renewables would actually work well.

Or one of the places.

TEXAS HAS MORE WIND ENERGY THAN THE ENTIRE NATION HAS SOLAR YOU GUYD

It has basically everything.

Renewable energy is far more expensive than coal generation right now

Sure. But it won't be once the tech is mature.

Power costs have skyrocketed especially in Vic because of it

yeah but Australia can afford to wait

And that's where state intervention helps.

If the tech ever has enough ppl u mean

Since u knlw education and what not

But state intervention has lead to year on year 200% power price increases

more in victoria

Well that's bad policy.

Renewable energy can play havoc with animal populations though

well the whole wind farms do chop up birds

The original carbon trading scheme wasn't necessarily bad policy.

IIRC hydroelectric also causes problems with fish, especially salmon