Labor must not partner with climate vandals on Australia's new environmental laws | Tim Flannery

If the government cuts a deal with them, it risks repeating the mistakes of the Abbott era, sacrificing progress for politicsThis week the National Liberal Coalition has rewound the clock a decade. When Tony Abbott's government abolished the Climate Commission in 2013, I knew it was a political act of climate vandalism. Abbott simply didn't want to hear the facts: that pollution from coal, oil and gas were cooking our planet.For a decade after, denial evolved: from shouting that global heating wasn't real, to claiming it could be solved later. Continue reading...