The emissions reduction fund was deeply flawed – and no rebranding will change this

The Coalition government has today released its climate policy for the upcoming election.

‘We need to do so much more than accounting
tricks and the direct purchase of spurious abatement’.

Not much could have been expected from the government given that the prime minister has only been in the role six months, and not much was delivered.

There is not a lot of detail around the total package, the $3.5bn cash splash. What we have is enough to make clear that this is not the climate policy solution that the government thinks it is.

Read the story from The Guardian by Tim Baxter - “The emissions reduction fund was deeply flawed – and no rebranding will change this.”

Tony Abbott has lost touch with reality on climate change

There may not be much to agree with in Tony Abbott's recent speech, "Daring to Doubt", delivered to the Global Warming Policy Foundation in London this week, but it's aptly titled.

Abbott's rambling discourse is full of the predictable sniping, undermining and wrecking that he vowed to spare us when ditched by his own party room in 2015, but some of his assertions are also pretty daring, no doubt about it. In fact, given the patent inaccuracy of his remarks, it's no surprise he had fly 10,000 miles to find an audience sufficiently receptive, or adequately ignorant of Australia's climate record, to actually listen.

Read Sarah Gill’s comment in today’s Melbourne Age - “Tony Abbott has lost touch with reality on climate change.”