{"id":91797,"date":"2025-05-03T06:05:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T20:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=91797"},"modified":"2025-05-06T10:21:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T00:51:39","slug":"phase-shift-this-election-the-energy-story-is-all-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/phase-shift-this-election-the-energy-story-is-all-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Phase Shift: This Election, The Energy Story Was All Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-91805\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/voting-booth-federal-election.jpg\" alt=\"A voting booth\" width=\"1165\" height=\"591\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/voting-booth-federal-election.jpg 1165w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/voting-booth-federal-election-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/voting-booth-federal-election-1024x519.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/voting-booth-federal-election-768x390.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1165px) 100vw, 1165px\" \/>As an ex-pommie, compulsory voting still feels a bit odd to me.<\/p>\n<p>Skip it and you\u2019ll cop a $20 fine \u2014 more than it costs to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/electric-vehicles\/ev-charging-guide\/#home-charging-costs\">fill your EV on off-peak electricity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s really strange, though, isn\u2019t the voting. It\u2019s the energy policies on offer \u2014 and how little they match what the major parties claim to believe.<\/p>\n<h2><!--more-->The Liberals&#8217; Big Government Strategy<\/h2>\n<p>Let\u2019s start with the Liberals.<\/p>\n<p>Their platform has always been about small government, individual responsibility, and supporting small business. But in this campaign? They\u2019ve been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/phase-shift-nuclear\/\">all-in on nuclear<\/a>, a technology that only exists with massive taxpayer backing, long timelines, and endless red tape. It\u2019s the ultimate big-government, centralised energy fantasy.<\/p>\n<p>They are also opposed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/battery-storage\/federal-rebate\/\">Labor\u2019s proposed battery rebate<\/a>, even though buying a battery is one of the best things a household can do to take control of their energy bills. Add a solar-charged EV (which the Liberals have vowed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/evs-leave-election-petrol-promises-in-the-dust-with-fbt-exemptions\/\">strip tax breaks from<\/a>) and you\u2019ve got real agency. You\u2019d think that\u2019s exactly the kind of self-sufficiency the Liberals would be shouting about. Instead, they\u2019re waving it off in favour of reactors that might arrive long after most voters are gone.<\/p>\n<h2>Labor Promoting Self-Reliance<\/h2>\n<p>Labor, meanwhile, has a long tradition of nation-building infrastructure &#8211; think Snowy Hydro, the NBN, rail lines, ports, public power stations. Nuclear fits that tradition. It\u2019s high-vis. It\u2019s union-friendly. It\u2019s a generational megaproject. So what\u2019s their stance? Nope. Not touching it.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Labor\u2019s energy plan is self-reliant, distributed, and household-focused. Batteries,\u00a0 solar and electrification, all supported by an army of clean energy entrepreneurs and small businesspeople. It\u2019s the right approach, but it\u2019s not exactly built for their traditional base.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever colour tie they\u2019re wearing, none of the parties\u2019 energy platforms seem to match what they claim to stand for.<\/p>\n<h2>The Greens&#8217; Ideological Purity<\/h2>\n<p>Except The Greens.<\/p>\n<p>Still clinging to ideological purity, still allergic to compromise, and still unrepentant for blowing up the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme in 2009. If there\u2019s one party whose energy stance matches their ideology, it\u2019s theirs.<\/p>\n<p>So maybe it\u2019s a good thing the two main parties stopped following ideological lines on energy.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it\u2019s time for a $20 fine for anyone insisting they should.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an ex-pommie, compulsory voting still feels a bit odd to me. 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