Australia was ready to act on climate 25 years ago, so what happened next?

There’s something about climate change that almost everyone in Australia has either forgotten or never knew in the first place.

 John Howard with Rupert Murdoch. Both men helped
 to hold back climate action in Australia in the 1990s
 and beyond, according to a new book by the author
 Maria Taylor. 

In 1990 Bob Hawke announced his government wanted the country to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by the year 2005.

For a fleeting moment, it seemed the Australian public, politicians and the media were in agreement with the science.

But a new book investigates how the industries that stood to lose the most worked to undermine the science and entirely reshape the story being told to the public.

“We have been propagandised,” says the author, Maria Taylor.

Read the story from The Guardian by Graham Readfearn - “Australia was ready to act on climate 25 years ago, so what happened next?”