Resources Minister Madeleine King and Anthony Albanese (Image: AAP/Marg Bertling)
Resources Minister Madeleine King and Anthony Albanese (Image: AAP/Marg Bertling)

Labor’s full surrender to the fossil fuel industry has been a while in coming since it was elected in 2022, but is now complete: the party’s embrace of gas to 2050 and of the myth of carbon capture makes the Albanese government indistinguishable from the Morrison government — which Labor derided for its “gas-led recovery”.

Peter Dutton has attracted considerable criticism for his embrace of nuclear power, but at least nuclear power works and has a proven track record, albeit at extraordinary cost and with massive delays. Carbon capture, which is now central