A well-funded push to get climate campaigners elected to parliament is making the traditional parties worried.
show climate as the number one issue for Australian voters, it is rarely mentioned by the major parties during campaigns. “It’s become politically unpalatable for either of the major parties to actually take any action. I think the only way we’re going to see action is through independents,” says Kate Chaney, who is running as an independent in the electoral division of Curtin in Western Australia.
Further, there are deep-seated issues of integrity at the national level of politics. In January, Transparency International gave Australia its worst ranking since 2012 on its Corruption Perceptions Index, a global measure of anti-corruption efforts, for its failure to establish a federal anti-corruption commission . Meanwhile,
A kangaroo escapes the fire as the fire front approaches a property on November 15, 2019 in Colo Heights, Australia. /Getty Images)The race between the Liberal and Labor Party looks like it will be tight, and the current government leaders are worried. Frydenberg has said he is in the
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