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Going electric and banning new petrol-powered cars could be Australia’s next big light bulb moment

  • Written by Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
Going electric and banning new petrol-powered cars could be Australia’s next big light bulb momentParabolStudio/Shutterstock

In 2007 Malcolm Turnbull turned off an industry’s life support without blinking.

The industry made light bulbs, of the traditional kind — so energy-inefficient they lost most of it as heat.

“A normal light bulb is too hot to hold — that heat is wasted, and globally represents millions of tonnes of...

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