Opinion: The day the climate changed and the glee club went missing | tonyowright
Seven years ago, Tony Abbott’s excitable forces were dancing confected jigs and high-fiving and embracing each other on the floor of the parliament in florid‘Teal’ independent MPs voted with Greens and Laborites of every factional hue to pass the climate bill.Almost none of those self-conscious revellers remain in today’s federal parliament.
And yet, there was no jiving, high-fiving or even discernible embracing. A brief outbreak of applause from the independents’ corner, to be sure, but in the end, it was a relatively sober moment. These remnants of a once-dominant Coalition, having spent the better part of a decade turning themselves inside out to ensure climate action never led, like dancing, to anything too vigorous, were left without an embrace among them.