Toxic emissions • Peter Brent

Toxic emissions • Peter Brent

Back in April 2015 Tony Abbott’s environment minister, Greg Hunt, boasted of the “stunning success” of the first “auction” under his government’s Emissions Reduction Fund. The ERF was the centrepiece of the “direct action” plan the Coalition had come up with to replace the Gillard government’s carbon price, aka “carbon tax,” which had operated from July 2012 to June 2014. Under Labor’s policy, around $7.7 billion a year had been collected via a …