Australia has no climate policy: a quick response to a drawn-out farce | Graham Readfearn

Climate change denial is at the root of the half-baked policies and outright wrecking that have blighted the past decade

I needed to write this column really quickly, otherwise we might have had a new prime minister before I'd finished, and the climate policy we don't have might have changed several times.

I gave myself 30 minutes because that reflects the fickle care and short-termism that has been afforded climate change in Australia in recent years.