When the Nationals followed by the Liberal Party walked away from their commitment to Net Zero, it was swiftly branded everything from a gift to the Albanese government to flat-out political suicide for the Coalition.
In a vacuum, it certainly makes it harder for the Coalition to win back the affluent urban seats now held by the Teal independents.
But politics doesn’t operate solely in a vacuum, and at an aggregate level, support really isn’t that robust or strongly held.
