Abbott's "Direct Action" not even costed

FFS. Is it time to call in the Governor General yet? Abbott is setting about to end the carbon tax, claiming his policy of "Direct Action" is a better way to go. cheaper and all. Plant some trees and the like. He went to the election with this policy.

Surprise surprise. The policy hasn't even been costed.  Not only that, it hasn't even been formulated. In other words, stupid Australians who didn't look into any details at all on his policies, voted for a policy that hasn't been put together and now appears to have a blank cheque attached to it. Yep, kill a program that's on target to reach 15% carbon reductions, for a plan that doesn't even exist let alone been costed.

Yesterday, in the Senate inquiry into the Abbott government’s mass repeal of carbon and related legislation, Treasury officials revealed that they had not costed or analysed the Direct Action policy. Or even been asked to. 

That’s probably because, as Climate Change Authority heads Bernie Fraser and Anthea Harris told the same inquiry last week, there is nothing there to analyse. Just a slogan, and a few ideas jotted down into a policy consultation document. 

Independent Senator Nick Xenophon told the inquiry chairman he was surprised the modelling had not been done, AAP reports. “I must say, chair, I am quite surprised, shocked in fact, that the treasury hasn’t taken any modelling in respect of this.” more