The Greens have fired back over comments made by Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen, who warned the party it would be a “betrayal” to team up with the Coalition to block new methodology to create carbon offsets from public native forests.
We used to talk about Australia punching above its weight on scientific research. Our scientists helped kick off the tech revolution with the invention of wi-fi. In health we invented the cochlear implant and helped develop the vaccine to prevent cervical cancer. That was then. Now according to the Australian Academy of Science we are going backwards.
Former ACT Greens leader Shane Rattenbury has warned that Labor and the Greens must put aside their political “tribalism” or risk being paving the way for a Liberal-One Nation partnership that would take the country “backwards” on climate action.
