Labor must not partner with climate vandals on Australia’s new environmental laws

‘The Albanese government has approved 32 new or expanded coal, oil and gas developments, including the North West Shelf expansion, Australia’s most polluting project in a decade.’ Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAP

This week the National Liberal Coalition has rewound the clock a decade. When Tony Abbott’s government abolished the Climate Commission in 2013, I knew it was a political act of climate vandalism. Abbott simply didn’t want to hear the facts: that pollution from coal, oil and gas were cooking our planet.

For a decade after, denial evolved: from shouting that global heating wasn’t real, to claiming it could be solved later.