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Roger Dargaville, Senior lecturer & Deputy Director Monash Energy Institute, Monash University

5 policy decisions from recent history that led to today's energy crisis

If you aren’t a long-term energy policy news junkie, you’d be forgiven for thinking today’s crisis arrived fairly suddenly.

Indeed, Liberal leader Peter Dutton is framing it as a recent catastrophe, saying it was caused by Labor “transitioning into renewables too quickly […] they are spooking the market.”

But this crisis hasn’t come out of nowhere.

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