The day that plunged Australia's climate policy into 10 years of inertia

Ten years ago Andrew Robb arrived at Parliament House intent upon an act of treachery.

One man's plan would not only see the overthrow of his leader,
it would blow apart Australia's two great political parties.

No-one was expecting him. Robb was formally on leave from the Parliament undergoing treatment for his severe depression.

But the plan the Liberal MP nursed to himself that morning would not only bring about the political demise of his leader, Malcolm Turnbull, but blow apart Australia's two great parties irrevocably just as they teetered toward consensus on climate change, the most divisive issue of the Australian political century.

They have never again been so close.

Read the ABC News story by Annabel Crabb - “The day that plunged Australia's climate policy into 10 years of inertia.”