Elizabeth Watson-Brown speaks about the many problems with the Labor Safeguard Mechanism
Elizabeth Watson-Brown MP for Ryan speaks about the many problems with Labor’s version of Tony Abbott’s Safeguard Mechanism. The Labor Government’s positive rhetoric on climate isn’t matched by policy. They will allow new coal and gas and won’t restrain big polluters. Labor says we shouldn’t make the perfect the enemy of the good. The hollowness of this phrase increases in direct proportion to its mechanical repetition, because this is not good legislation, and the Greens are not demanding the perfect. In fact, the Greens are demanding the good in the face of genuinely bad legislation that will actually take us backwards.