There's little doubt that the outcome of the May federal election makes the journey tougher for the Australian renewable energy industry.The hope that we would finally emerge from the election with a comprehensive and coherent national energy and climate policy was dashed with the Coalition's victory,whose policy commitments offered little to fill the national energy policy void that has afflicted Australian politics for the past 15 years.But after a record-breaking couple of years,the Australian renewable energy and energy storage industry is now in a strong enough position to overcome such setbacks and create our own opportunities.When it came to energy and climate change policy,the two major parties took very different approaches to the election.The ALP outlined a comprehensive policy platform that envisioned an Australia at the forefront of global efforts to reduce carbon emissions and transition to renewable energy.In comparison,the Coalition adopted a small target strategy with minimal policy platform,with an insistence that Australia was on track to meet its Paris target commitments.The two headline policies in the ALP's energy and environmental platform were its 50% renewable energy target and its pledge to reduce Australia's emissions by 45% by 2030.These policies came under attack from a sustained fear campaign,supported by some very questionable modelling based on outdated and biased inputs.
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