New York-based Asia Society<\/a> thinktank, Rudd said Australia should \u201cseize the opportunity presented by what is now unfolding in Iran and the strait of Hormuz \u2013 and frankly the shock which working people across the world are now experiencing in terms of continued hydrocarbon dependency\u201d.<\/p>\n\u201cThey are experiencing the physical terror of becoming insecure in their supply of what they need to drive to work if they\u2019re still using a gasoline-based car,\u201d Rudd said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you\u2019ve got an EV at the moment, or frankly, if you\u2019ve got a hybrid, you are much less dependent on what comes out of the geopolitics of the Gulf at present.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said Australia had an \u201cenormous comparative advantage\u201d in green iron, steel and renewable energy due to its \u201cvast slabs of real estate, vast amounts of sunshine\u201d and proximity to export markets in south-east Asia.<\/p>\n
Speaking at the same event, the former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull said \u201cwe\u2019re in a position now where we can say to the people, you can have cheaper power, affordable power, reliable power with renewables. And that\u2019s why nobody is building new coal power stations in Australia\u201d.<\/p>\n
The former Liberal leader described the Liberal party\u2019s decision to preference One Nation in the Farrer byelection as \u201ca retrograde move\u201d, describing One Nation as \u201cright out there in the climate change denial business\u201d.<\/p>\n
Rudd said the Biden administration\u2019s Inflation Reduction Act was an example of trying to \u201cthread the needle\u201d between building the green industries of the future, delivering green energy to American working families and creating new green jobs.<\/p>\n
For Biden and his team, \u201cthis was about driving the message home into the red states, into working families and creating new green jobs \u2013 so that when inevitably, political change occurred in Washington, it will be harder to pull it back\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnfortunately, much of this has been pulled back. But if you go to the various states of the United States, including those in the south, there is enormous attachment still to the investments which came about under the [Inflation Reduction Act].<\/p>\n
\u201cIt hasn\u2019t been a complete flipback under President Trump, because the states have fought back.\u201d<\/p>\n
The message for Australian governments, he said, was to ensure policies delivered for \u201cthe good folks in communities right across Australia\u201d in \u201ctheir head, in their hearts and in their pocketbook\u201d.<\/p>\n
Rudd was a vocal critic of Trump<\/a> prior to his appointment as US ambassador, describing him as the \u201cmost destructive president in history\u201d in a 2020 social media post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kevin Rudd has described Donald Trump\u2019s cuts to support for green industries as \u201cunfortunate\u201d, warning that Australians would…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-634232","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}