Wild Rivers
As Sir Humphrey Appleby would say, it is a truly ‘courageous’ strategy by Tony Abbott to chose the environment as his first major battleground to combat the Rudd Government.
Does Tony Abbott, climate change sceptic and wild river hater honestly believe he can woo the hearts and minds of green-minded voters? Is there really a nature-loving softy behind the political hard-man façade?
Abbott’s quest for the green vote began in earnest with his declaration that climate change is “crap”. A few weeks later, aided by the well known deep “practical” greenies of Nick Minchin and Barnaby Joyce, Abbott successfully overthrew Malcolm Turnbull and established climate change denialism as the preferred path of the Liberal Party. This is an interesting first play for green votes.
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