Hysterical Bill Shorten headlines miss the point: no credible climate policy exists

It's been hard to miss the hyperventilating news coverage about Labor's new emissions 'aspiration', but neither major party has a plan for climate change

It was hard to miss the screaming headlines as I arrived home from an overseas holiday Thursday. Bill Shorten had apparently committed a gory and unfathomable act of political harakiri with a "loony " lurch to the left" climate policy that had guaranteed Tony Abbott victory at the next election. The Labor leader was a "zombie" with a "death wish" (I thought zombies were already dead, but anyway...) and was advocating a "massive" carbon tax, or perhaps two or three massive carbon taxes all at the same time, in a bloody-minded multitaxing attempt to bankrupt hard-working Aussie families in the interests of appeasing inner-city families (who apparently also eat a lot of goats cheese).

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