The really stupid thing is that they aren’t getting into government in the next election and probably not in the one after, so the energy transition is going to be mostly done by then. The elderly coal plants that the LNP wants to pour money into are going to be gone.

Coal power stations wear out, and we haven’t built any new ones in 20 years or so. Many of them were built in the 80s and nobody’s looking to fund new ones.