Melbourne's Age call for more action on climate change

T

he Editorial from yesterday’s Melbourne Age.

Six years ago, Malcolm Turnbull lost the leadership of the Liberal Party to Tony Abbott during a bitter tussle over the Coalition's direction on climate change policies. On that day, any serious efforts by the Coalition to develop emissions reduction strategies all but vanished.

 

In a frank opinion piece written just days after that 2009 defeat, Mr Turnbull declared that any such policy produced while Mr Abbott led the Liberal Party "will simply be a con". He said the Liberal Party had no intention of doing anything about climate change because Mr Abbott and his band of conservative supporters fundamentally did not believe the science that showed global warming was caused by human activities.

Read the Editorial here - “Malcolm Turnbull should lift our climate targets.”