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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Environment
Graham Readfearn

Fallout from Woodside’s birthday bash shows Australia is far from united in climate fight

Former prime minister Tony Abbott
Former prime minister Tony Abbott took aim at Anthony Albanese for missing Woodside’s 70th birthday dinner – and claimed ‘nothing Australia does will make any difference to climate’. Photograph: Joel Carrett/AAP

If we are looking for something to illustrate Australia’s inability to have any coherent and sustained response to the climate crisis over the past couple of decades, we can find it in the reaction to the fossil fuel giant Woodside’s 70th birthday dinner.

That reaction being a little bit of climate science denial, plus some political patronage and big servings of fossil fuel cheerleading barely disguised as journalism.

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