Who is really in charge of setting and implementing Australia’s energy policy? Is it the Morrison government which last week circulated its policy position discussion paper for responses by 21 June? While advocating more big spending on clean energy, it is wary of a 2050 target for zero emissions without a plan to achieve it, highlights gas, features hydrogen, commends carbon capture and storage (which environmentalists reckon is only a cover for maintaining a coal option) and even suggests nuclear.