After more than a decade of darkness in Australia?s parliament, today was a good day for the climate | Katharine Murphy

Passing legislation tethers the nation to the fact that moral people have to do what we can to avert the collapse of the planet?s climateGet our free news app, morning email briefing and daily news podcastThere have been a lot of bad days for the climate in the Australian parliament. Days that make you rage. Days that make you weep.That infamous vote in 2009 sinking Kevin Rudd?s carbon pollution reduction scheme. Years of apocalyptic screeching about nonexistent carbon taxes. The repeal of the clean energy scheme. That day when Scott Morrison brandished a lump of coal supplied by the Minerals Council of Australia and told MPs across the chamber not to be scared. Continue reading...