Clive Hamilton ponders the fate of child refugees and 'sensible' climate policy

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live Hamilton asks on the Guardian, “Must child refugees remain incarcerated and brutalised if Australia is to return to a sensible climate policy?”

Clive Hamilton.

The Australian public intellectual and Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics and the Vice-Chancellor's Chair in Public Ethics at Charles Sturt University, has also written extensively about climate change.

He says, “This is the horrible question now confronting all progressive Australians. By progressive, I mean those who understand the dangers of climate change and the imperative for Australia to play a fair role in reducing global emissions and who, at the same time, feel appalled that this nation can lock up asylum seekers in offshore detention centres to live, without hope, in sub-human conditions.”

Read his story - “Labor's dilemma: progress on climate change is the hostage of xenophobia”.