{"id":2648,"date":"2013-07-01T10:13:47","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T23:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=2648"},"modified":"2017-10-25T10:14:08","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T23:44:08","slug":"what-does-the-rudd-return-mean-for-solar-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/what-does-the-rudd-return-mean-for-solar-power\/","title":{"rendered":"What does the Rudd return mean for solar power?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtube-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"Kevin Rudd, PM - Cliff hanger finale 2008 ! ROVE\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/glQYkBStDWc?list=PL83710253C88E92CA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">The big news in Australian politics during the week was of course the return of the Queensland kid, aka The Ruddster, The Nerdy One etc. The Machiavellian machinations of the Australian Labor Party which allowed the regurgitation of Kevin Rudd has done wonders to kick start a moribund election campaign, but what effect will this have on the party\u2019s solar power policy?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing Heavy Kevvy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/opinion\/political-news\/rudd-names-his-team-20130701-2p61b.html\">had just announced his new front bench<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Shouldn\u2019t we just relax though solar power fans? After all didn\u2019t Kevvy say in 2007 that climate change was the<strong> \u201cgreatest environmental, moral and economic challenge of our time\u201d<\/strong>? At least this was true when he famously unseated Johnny Howard in the knock \u2018em down, drag \u2018em out election campaign of that year. Surely then he\u2019d back solar power as the future of the country in this year\u2019s election stoush with The Mad Monk?<\/p>\n<p>These of course were words that came back to haunt the Ruddster when he failed to deliver on climate change in the Copenhagen climate talks of 2009, a failure that the Milky Bar Kid paid dearly for as his previously sky-rocketing popularity plummeted. This allowed Julia \u201cRemember Her\u201d Gillard an opening to unseat the king.<\/p>\n<p>This is now ancient political history, to be referred to only in passing only by sad, political junkies like this correspondent. It is the present and future of climate initiatives and the related policies on solar power that must concern us.<\/p>\n<p>Does Ruddy still consider climate change (and presumably renewable energy) as the chief moral challenge of our time? Or as a politician will his policies be ah&#8230;moulded by the necessity of the challenge to park his butt on the government side of the Treasury benches after the next election? Or at least limit the electoral damage?<\/p>\n<p>Early signs aren\u2019t that great solar power fans. The chief architects of the carbon price Julia Gillard and Greg Combet have both announced their retirement from politics at the next election. While the carbon tax they crafted had more holes in it than the Wallabies rugby union front row (or a Swiss cheese factory for the non sporting types amongst us) it was at least something in the battle to reduce the effects of pollution.<\/p>\n<p>A step (a baby step granted) towards taxing the real polluters of the nation, the tax may yet go down in history as one of the great achievements of the Gillard government.<\/p>\n<p>So who\u2019s to be the driving force to replace the Gillard\/Combet team on climate change and related solar power?<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully a nightmare your correspondent had last night where recently-retired Martin \u201cFossil Fuel\u201d Ferguson was parachuted in as Minister for Climate Change has not come to pass. Phew! It appears that some bloke called\u00a0Mark Butler has the post. Google tells us he used to be\u00a0Minister for Housing and Homelessness, where he was mainly responsible for feeding homeless solar installers who had lost everything in the &#8220;great solar rebate cuts&#8221; of the Gillard Years.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently he is also the Federal Member for Port Radelaide, so perhaps we can send fellow Radelaidean Finn round to discuss the finer points of solar policy with him?<\/p>\n<p>Watch this space!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big news in Australian politics during the week was of course the return of the Queensland kid, aka The Ruddster, The Nerdy One etc. The Machiavellian machinations of the Australian Labor Party which allowed the regurgitation of Kevin Rudd has done wonders to kick start a moribund election campaign, but what effect will this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[36,397],"class_list":["post-2648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-policy","tag-australia","tag-politics","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.5 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What does the Rudd return mean for solar power? - SolarQuotes Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Big news in Oz politics this week was the return of the Qld kid. 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