Labor was lashed for doing something about carbon emissions; the Coalition is being lambasted for doing nothing
Seven years ago, Greg Combet, then a Labor minister, implemented a carbon price in a minority parliament, an experience so arduous it helped curtail his political career. Now, safely outside political life, he looks on with bemusement about where the climate and energy debate has washed up.
On Tuesday, Combet launched a new report by the Industrial Relations Research Centre at the University of New South Wales investigating how countries such as Australia can achieve a Fair transition for coal workers displaced as the economy decarbonises.
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A hands off approach has left many retrenched workers and their communities with very difficult transition problems
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