Labor must not partner with climate vandals on Australia’s new environmental laws | Tim Flannery

<p>If the government cuts a deal with them, it risks repeating the mistakes of the Abbott era, sacrificing progress for politics</p><p>This week the National Liberal Coalition has rewound the clock a decade. When Tony Abbott’s government <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/20/climate-commission-tim-flannery">abolished the Climate Commission</a> in 2013, I knew it was a political act of climate vandalism. Abbott simply didn’t want to hear the facts: that pollution from <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/13/world-still-on-track-for-catastrophic-26c-temperature-rise-report-finds">coal, oil and gas were cooking our planet</a>.</p><p>For a decade after, denial evolved: from shouting that global heating wasn’t real, to claiming it could be solved later.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/14/labor-must-not-partner-with-climate-vandals-on-australias-new-environmental-laws">Continue reading...</a>