The Coalition’s long road to Glasgow
Inner-city Liberals believe Barnaby Joyce has a historic opportunity to engineer a ‘Nixon in China’ moment on climate change. But you can’t bet on it.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison is headed to Glasgow in November without an agreement on net zero. Alex Ellinghausen
Feelings of ennui are common in Canberra but the sense of suspended animation this week was more palpable than usual.
It had nothing to do with the ACT government’s snap seven-day COVID-19 lockdown that has silenced an already sleepy town. And it was only tangentially related to the federal government’s threadbare legislative agenda. Parliamentarians could easily have skipped this week’s session. Few would have noticed or cared a jot.
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