Throwing out the trash

Albanese has ditched the modelling underpinning Labor's 2030 carbon target

Five months before the last election, Anthony Albanese flashed a glossy 43-page document in front of the Canberra press gallery, declaring it "the most comprehensive modelling ever done for any policy by any opposition in Australia's history since Federation".

The headline figure from the Powering Australia report was the now notorious promise to reduce …