In 10 years Australia went from Abbott to Albanese – but how much has really changed?

‘Labor’s genuinely ambitious plans mostly don’t centre on climate but on a national security agenda that Tony Abbott would have welcomed with an eight flag press conference.’ Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/AP

This is my last column for Guardian Australia. I started contributing to the then new publication in 2013.

Back then the climate emergency remained, for many of us, largely hypothetical: a great moral challenge (as someone once put it) rather than an immediate and palpable threat.