Key people are talking but there’s frustration in both camps. The weeks ahead will require maturity and dexterity
Necessity brings us to science. Anyone who reads climate science knows we have to act faster because the risks of failing to act are existential. The Greens. I’ll say this again: the Greens are right on the science.
But anyone paying attention for the past decade also understands that base electoral politics, straight-out lying, manipulation and weaponisation, has made it difficult for incumbent governments to do what the science tells us is necessary. Australia’s climate wars have inflicted a deep wound on the polity. Healing it isn’t an overnight proposition, particularly when the war isn’t over.
Community sentiment is shifting. The May election result tells us more Australians understand they’ve been had by lying politicians and greedy corporates. But Peter Dutton remains fully subscribed to the Coalition’s cult of no, because he wants to chase his electoral losses by going after traditional Labor voters in the outer suburbs and regions.The Greens say they are prepared to turn a blind eye to the various deficiencies in the revamp if Labor will ban new coal and gas developments.
Key people are talking, but there is frustration in both camps. Bandt would argue Labor is more timid than it needs be – too busy fighting the last war to see that the politics have now shifted, and decisively, in favour of climate action. Albanese would argue this is naive. The politics have certainly shifted, but not uniformly in terms of geography, and parties of government have to straddle geography if they want the opportunity to change the country.
While the private punditry of a couple of party leaders remains a matter of argument, this final statement is objectively true.We can’t blow another one, and the responsibility for ensuring that doesn’t happen is a collective one for progressive forces in the current parliament, because the Coalition on these questions is no better than a laugh track; it has opted out of a core responsibility of a governing party.
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