Labor likes to complain about the Coalition rewriting history when it comes to its successful handling of the financial crisis. Yet the party is engaging in some revisionism of its own about the same era.
It’s 10 years since the Rudd government’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) was defeated in the Senate, opposed by the Coalition and the cross-bench. Labor is commemorating the anniversary by claiming that if only the Greens had backed the CPRS, Australia would have avoided a decade of climate wars and begun reducing its carbon emissions. This is a fully-fledged campaign, with senior
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