A well-meaning but redundant $700m
ANALYSIS: Extra money in the Budget for the Green Investment Fund is more political window-dressing than environmental action.
Green Investment Finance expects to have invested $120m by June this year.
To paraphrase the old riddle about a tree falling in the forest: if a politician does something and nobody notices, did the deed really exist?
Philosophically this is less of a tricky question than the one about the tree, although it can trigger some existential angst for politicians
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