Coalition unity goes up in climate flames

Wednesday, 5 February 2020

Following the great tradition of all recent PMs, comes SmoCo going up in flames over climate change, at the AFR:

Nationals leader Michael McCormack said the Coalition should hold the line against further action on climate change after a leadership coup against him by Barnaby Joyce failed but reignited fierce internal debate in the Coalition over its policy direction.

While Mr McCormack must now keep at bay his own enemies who do not believe climate change is an issue, Scott Morrison is being pushed by Liberals to do more following the devastating bushfires.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.