After a decade of policy backflips and uncertainty, we are now being sold ‘technology neutral’ energy policy. But we need it to be discriminatory – and favour clean power

Malcolm Turnbull, then the minister for the environment shake hands with Peter Garrett, the shadow environment minister, during the environment debate at the National Press Club in Canberra November, 2007. The Coalition went to the 2007 election with an ETS policy, but backed away from emissions trading under Tony Abbott.
Malcolm Turnbull, then the minister for the environment shake hands with Peter Garrett, the shadow environment minister, during the environment debate at the National Press Club in Canberra November, 2007. The Coalition went to the 2007 election with an ETS policy, but backed away from emissions trading under Tony Abbott. Photograph: Mark Graham/AAP