Matt Kean bows out, taking what’s left of reforming politics with him
Politics tamfitronics There’s a little irony in Matt Kean, former NSW treasurer and energy minister, announcing he was leaving politics for the private energy sector the day NSW Labor announced a string of deficits in its 2024 budgetand as Peter Dutton was finalising his harebrained scheme to build a fleet of nuclear power plants by 2050 — or, as the Coalition has now admitted, keep and even expand coal-fired power and bring an end to Australia’s transition to renewable energy.In the last NSW Coalition budget in 2022, Kean had forecast the state would finally return to surplus in the coming year — and today his successors actually have more revenue available than was expected back then. As for going nuclear, Kean had made his views clear when he bailed out of the “Coalition for Conservation”...
