Compare the pair. Which newspaper published an editorial featuring the following sentence in 2013?

“The key, therefore, is to facilitate a market-based mechanism which does not punish producers at a delicate time for our economy but rather enhances competition and encourages new technologies that in time can deliver clean and affordable electricity for consumers.

Most important is that all sides of the debate approach the problem in a measured, rational and sensible way. Otherwise what kind of world are we trying to save?”

The AgeThe AustralianThe Betoota Advocate? Guess again, it was the Daily Telegraph. Yes, the same Daily Telegraph that published this front page yesterday warning us of a zombie carbon tax coming to eat our brains/economy.

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