The Greens are demanding no future government be allowed to relax Labor's 43 per cent 2030 emissions reduction target, effectively legislating away our right to change things we don't like, writes Gemma Tognini.
Firstly, sensible, rational folk everywhere agree that having the cleanest energy mix possible and reliable baseload power is both essential and important.
Greens leader Adam Bandt has proven himself yet again to be a tyrant of sorts - an absolutist who, while leading a party the majority of Australians shun at the ballot box, is holding the nation to ransom with insane demands around climate policy.
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