Job figures: Coalition negativity bites back

Updated August 9 2014 - 1:13am, first published 12:15am
Tony Abbott and his ideological cronies have decimated the high-growth, high-employment renewable energy sector.
Tony Abbott and his ideological cronies have decimated the high-growth, high-employment renewable energy sector.

It may be politically expedient to attack Labor and the Greens for blocking the budget in the Senate as the excuse for flagging business confidence and the lack of jobs growth, but let’s face it, the Coalition has been an ongoing wrecking ball in the Australian economy ("Jobs hit 12-year low", August 8). Taking just one industry example, renewable energy; Abbott and his ideological cronies have decimated this high-growth, high-employment sector and for what? A desire to protect a dinosaur fossil fuel industry like coal.

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