For an orderly transition from fossil fuels, Australia needs a carbon price to replace its hodgepodge of clumsy government interventions.
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The end of coal-fired generation in Australia is inevitable. But the federal government can do more to ensure an orderly transition to renewables – avoiding price spikes and supporting workers.
Australia’s entire coal fleet will retire in the next few decades. The federal government’s response to the Hazelwood coal plant closure has left a mess – it must do better.
We have quantified the effects of twelve power station closures in five states. Local unemployment shoots up and comes down only slowly.
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy and Head of Energy, Institute for Climate Energy and Disaster Solutions, Australian National University
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Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute
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Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney
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Visiting Fellow, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Editor, Grattan Institute
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Energy Fellow, Grattan Institute
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, Macquarie University
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DPhil Candidate, University of Oxford
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UCL
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Tutor, The University of Queensland
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The University of Queensland
