Institute of Public Affairs blasts Coalition's 'un-Liberal' energy policies

Exclusive: IPA's John Roskam says government should 'stop all subsidies to coal, wind and anything else'

The Institute of Public Affairs has blasted the Morrison government's "big stick" in energy policy - a threat to break up energy companies in a bid to lower prices - accusing it of breaching Liberal values and endangering investment.

The IPA executive director, John Roskam, told Guardian Australia that "heavy-handed intervention" was "positively un-Liberal" and would open the door for Labor to campaign on policies bashing big businesses - which are "simply responding to the policy settings the government itself has created" to make a profit.