Amid Australia’s chaotic climate politics, the rooftop solar boom is an unlikely triumph | Adam Morton

It's difficult to overstate how rapidly Australians have embraced solar power - there's now more rooftop solar than coal-fired power. The key question is what policymakers can learn from its success

• Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast

Australia was a different place in 2011. Julia Gillard's Labor government, the Greens and a couple of country independents were rewriting the country's climate policies, including introducing a world-leading carbon pricing system and creating three agencies to back it up.

Those organisations - the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency and the Climate Change Authority - have survived and help shape the investment and policy landscape. The carbon pricing system - falsely described as a tax - famously didn't.

Sign up for Guardian Australia's breaking news email