Malcolm headed for Paris, but will he be bold enough when he gets there?

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y attending the Paris talks, Malcolm Turnbull is telling the world Australia is re-engaging with the UN climate process following the Abbott years. Being bold when he gets there could wind up to be the cleverest thing Australia could do, writes Sara Phillips.

In 2013, amongst the delegation of 20 Australian public servants that went to the United Nations climate change talks in Warsaw, there was no minister. No environment minister. No foreign minister. Certainly no prime minister.

It was the first time since 2001 that no minister had attended. And that year was the middle of an election campaign.

In 2013, Tony Abbott's Liberal government had been elected just a few months prior promising to, amongst other things, axe the carbon tax that Labor had introduced to manage Australia's greenhouse gas emissions.

Read the story on The Drum - “Malcolm Turnbull signals a change on climate, but how bold will he be?”