Climate change abatement efforts will only change when the government changes

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fforts of abatement, mitigation or the slowing of climate change cause in Australia will not alter until the people vote to change the government.

Coal is the unequivocal villain in the worsening of the world’s atmosphere and yet Tony Abbott and his coalition cohorts continue to ignore that reality and through its Budget continue to back coal projects.

A Sydney Morning Herald story by Lisa Cox tells readers that, “Coal projects in the Galilee Basin and on the door step of the Great Barrier Reef could receive government financing under a $5 billion loan scheme in the federal budget.”

Her story - “Abbott government budget boost could help controversial Galilee coal projects” – says, “Coal projects in the Galilee Basin and on the door step of the Great Barrier Reef could receive government financing under a $5 billion loan scheme in the federal budget.”