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Flat White

ScoMo, scrap Snowy 2.0

6 September 2018

2:07 PM

6 September 2018

2:07 PM

Only politicians could think it’s a good idea to spend billions of dollars pumping water uphill to generate electricity in a land with enough coal to last 1,000 years. Yet that is exactly what the federal government is doing.

Flying in by helicopter, donning a leather jacket with snow-capped mountains in the background, former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull revealed his grand nation-building project “Snowy 2.

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