Larry Williams Drive

I’m not entirely sure what James Shaw has been doing with his time. But whatever it is, it certainly wasn’t spent nailing down a climate plan. What he’s released today is very short on detail. Very short. This is supposed to be a big day for the Government by the way. The PM’s called climate change the nuclear-free moment of our generation. Her government had copped it for doing very little about that for five years but this was going to fix all that. This plan was so big it would make the economic upheaval of Rogernomics look like “a trial period”. It was so complicated, James Shaw had to delay its release by five months to today to finish all the work on it. So, it’s fair to say expectations were high. In which case this will be a huge disappointment to the climate crowd. It’s more notable for what’s missing than what’s actually in it. The congestion charge that was expected to be in this announcement isn’t. That decision has been delayed until later this year. They need to do some policy work. The expected