Independent MP Julia Banks’s announcement today that she will jettison her inner-Melbourne electorate of Chisholm and will instead run for the safe Liberal seat of Flinders, against former environment minister Greg Hunt, underlines that climate change will be front and centre at the next election, whether Scott Morrison is ready or not.
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The Liberals’ decision to replace Malcolm Turnbull over the National Energy Guarantee in August has created a spectacular backlash from the sensible centre. It began with Kerryn Phelps’s historic win in Wentworth, turned angry with the landslide Victorian election, and has been followed this year by former Clean Energy Finance Corporation chief Oliver Yates’s tilt at Treasurer Josh Frydenberg’s Kooyong electorate, and former Olympic skier Zali Steggall’s candidacy in Tony Abbott’s Sydney seat of Warringah. There may be more to come.
Read the story from The Monthly by Paddy Manning - “A challenging climate.”
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