Why she is proposing this now is that she hopes against hope that it can actually be forced through into legislation with the aid of The Australian Greens Party in the Senate, who are in fact the main drivers of this legislation. The hope is she can force it through now, even though it is roundly detested by everyone, and then the hope is that come the next election in three years time, the people will have gotten used to it and forgotten it. Fat chance. especially when it’s going to drive up the cost of electricity by so much.
This announcement has been poison, both for her as leader, and for her Government, and the polls have them in free fall at the moment.
It’s going to be touch and go if it does get up.
Can she do that?