Libs should reflect on proverb ‘As a dog returns to its vomit, so fools repeat their folly’
- Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Twice in recent times the Liberals have faced an existential crisis over climate and energy policy: in 2009 over Kevin Rudd’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, and in 2018 over the National Energy Guarantee, a plan to reduce emissions while maintaining reliability at lowest cost.
In each case the party was led by Malcolm Turnbull, first as...
