Surging energy prices are really going to hurt. What can the government actually do?

  • Written by: Tony Wood, Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute
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Picture this. You’re in government for the first time in more than a decade. And within six months, you’re facing a diabolical problem: skyrocketing energy prices. To your constituents, it doesn’t matter that the root cause is a war in Europe. What they’ll see is pain – electricity and gas bills climbing...

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