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The New South Wales environment minister, the Liberal Matt Kean, has launched a clarion call for his party to represent the forgotten people" who don't march down George Street" and don't have a platform on Sky News" but support meaningful action on climate change.

Borrowing the forgotten people" from the Liberal party founder, Robert Menzies, Kean told a forum organised by the Australia Institute on Wednesday that the free market was driving an inexorable transition to low-emission energy sources but politics and ideology" had been getting in the way of market forces.