'Deafening silience' about environment in present Australian election campaign

There’s a deafening silence in the ongoing Australian election campaign over the environment. Polling shows increasing public support for greater action on climate change but debate has been mostly missing.

And despite some blows traded over the Great Barrier Reef, the wider environment has made almost no appearance. But this hasn’t always been the case.

From the origins of the environmental movement in the 1970s to the 2007 climate change election that toppled Liberal Prime Minister John Howard, the environment has been a key battleground, and it could become one again.

Read the views a PhD Candidate from the Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester, Marc Hudson, on The Conversation -  “The sound of silence: why has the environment vanished from election politics.”