Naomi Klein criticises lack of global action on climate change after Sydney Peace prize win

Author and social activist says political action on climate change was lacking 'and nowhere more so than Australia'

The Canadian author and social activist Naomi Klein has criticised Australia's climate change policies after winning the Sydney Peace prize for her work exposing the structural causes of the planet's climate crisis.

Klein said political action on climate change was lacking "and nowhere more so than Australia". She has previously described Tony Abbott as a climate change "villain".