This election marked a turning point on climate – but what will it mean Australia?

Labor's climate plan is designed to limit the political risk of a scare campaign - but there are already calls for it to go beyond its headline commitments

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It will take a while to untangle all the threads that led to Saturday's extraordinary result, but there is little doubt this was the climate election Australians have long been told was coming.

A surge of Greens and Climate 200-backed teal independents turfed heartland Liberal MPs who were part of a government that claimed to be acting on emissions but wasn't, pumped vast sums into fossil fuels and was considered a global blocker on addressing global heating.