We’ve lost another prime minister in the front bar brawl that is Australian politics, but we’ve lost something else as well, something that’s a bit harder to see.
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| The imperative of emissions reduction now hangs over Liberal leaders like the sword of Damocles. |
For the last decade or more, a group of people in the political system have been trying to land a bipartisan consensus on energy policy and climate change, persevering through all the dispiriting cycles of trying to achieve that end, hoping that a corner could be turned.
That animating current in politics, and it’s been a significant one, now seems to have hit a dead end. That’s the feeling. We’ve reached a point of no return.
Read Katharine Murphy’s story from The Guardian - “Options on energy policy leave Coalition in a sticky situation.”
