Failure to act now on energy policy will just trigger Groundhog Day | Katharine Murphy

There are several good reasons to adopt the Finkel proposals – unless the Coalition just wants more zero sum bouts with LaborWhile politics never sleeps, and the verbiage from Canberra never stops, there has been a strange sense of suspended animation about the last couple of weeks, apart from a mild frenzy on Friday, as rumours circulated of early elections, cancelled parliamentary sittings, and general plague and pestilence.
The reason for Friday’s startle reflex is, of course, the