Conservatives like me embrace conservation. Why the Coalition’s chainsaw approach to climate?

Summary

The radical assault on longstanding measures to drive down Australia’s emissions and facilitate decarbonisation seems almost pathological Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here The Coalition is repudiating its longstanding policy positions on climate, even to the extent of disowning many of the structures it created when in government. Such thinking is not from the conservative tradition and has more in common with the radical. In my view, it is an abandonment of the Liberal traditions and values that have long sustained the party’s success…

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