Colin Barnett has announced a u-turn on the amount people with solar panels will get for electricity they put into the grid (http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/newshome/18456332/cabinet-reverses-solar-tariff-decision). The cut, from 40 cents/unit to 20 cents/unit, will not now go ahead - because of all the backlash from the community and from members of his own party.
All this just hours after the Treasurer, Troy Buswell, was defending the cuts on the grounds of the broader public interest. It seems this government can't even get its act together when they get it right (in the end).
Now, just what sort of reaction did Barnett think he was going to get to a proposal that not only cut the amount people received in half but was also almost certainly illegal (a letter from Synergy sent in 2011 stated that customers would receive the 40 cents for the full term of their 10-year contract). Just what part of 'legally-binding contract' does his emperorness not understand?
Out of the three possible reasons for changing his mind (community outrage, pressure from government MPs or illegality), my money is on the second as being the key one.
So perhaps there is still hope for getting a better outcome for local government and local communities without resorting to forced amalgamations. Lobby Liberal/National Members of Parliament and if enough of them see some semblance of sense perhaps CB will make (yet another) u-turn.
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