This article compares Matt Canavan's stance on climate change to the last of the Mohicans, highlighting the acceptance of climate change by the Liberal and National parties under Peter Dutton. It emphasizes the shift in policy compared to previous years and the need for a rational approach to climate change in Australian politics.
In 1826. It was made into an incredible film starring the inestimable Daniel Day Lewis in 1992. It tells the story of the last stand of a fictional character, the last of his tribe, against insurmountable odds. If advocates for new coal-fired power stations were Mohicans, then North Queensland Nationals senator Matt Canavan would be the last of the Mohicans.
While I don’t agree with Canavan’s opposition to the move to net zero emissions by 2050, nor his advocacy for new coal-fired power stations, I’ve got to hand it to him – he never gives up!But his lone stand brings into stark relief an achievement for which Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has attracted little praise – the acceptance by both the Liberal and National parties that indeed the climate is changing, that the human race and its emissions have contributed to this change, and something needs to be done about it. While this might sound rather obvious, let me tell you, from the end of the Howard government in 2007 (remember, prime minister John Howard had set in train the bones of an emissions trading scheme) to the announcement by the Coalition party room that it would embrace nuclear power in early 2024, a number of Liberal Party leaders fell into the ravine brought about by the elements of the Liberal and National party rooms who would not countenance climate change mitigation policies.Dutton is well aware that the vast majority of Australians want action on climate change and do not support new coal-fired power stations. Many of these voters are found in the metropolitan seats that he needs to win to wrest government from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese after only one term. They are not just found in the so-called “teal seats”. They are found in households, farms and families across Australia. Put simply, not having a rational policy on climate change is poison in Australian politic
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