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Not everyone cares about climate change, but reproach won’t change their minds
So much for Australia’s “climate election”.
In the event, voters in last month’s federal poll didn’t put climate policy at the top of their wish list.
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- The Conversation
Contrary to opinion polls predicting a groundswell of support for Labor’s relatively progressive agenda on climate and economics, the election results revealed that Australians are more divided on climate change than we thought.
Voters for progressive climate policy were dismayed at the re-election of a prime minister who famously brought a lump of coal into Parliament.
Perhaps understandably, one of the…
But anger feeds a…