Thursday, September 09, 2010

Australia's Greens win the battle, but the war continues


Australia's new government has the best chance in a generation of passing carbon legislation, but action on climate change is anything but a done deal

To use a suitably Australian idiom it would be wrong to piss on the chips of the country's Green Party just hours after it secured a powerful hold over the future direction of Labor's new minority government. But at the same time those environmental commentators lining up to suggest Labor's narrowest of victories will result in the rapid adoption of a progressive climate change policy are likely to be disappointed.

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