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01/06/20 3:47 PM

#148730 RE: BullNBear52 #148701

Yep. Morrison took the leadership of the Liberal/National coalition (Aussie conservatives) .. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-24/live-scott-morrison-replaces-malcolm-turnbull-as-pm-after-spill/10159462 .. in August 2018 from Malcolm Turnbull who had supported greater action on climate change than the more conservative characters in the conservative coalition wanted the party to go. Turnbull was seen as too liberal by many in his party.

Morrison was seen as less rightwing than Dutton.

Peter Dutton calls for second leadership spill amid chaos in Canberra – politics live
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In May 2019 Morrison then beat Bill Shorten of the Labor Party (also now sadly less into adaption of the energy sector - some 70% reliant on coal vs yours roughly 30% - to the dangers of climate change than the electorate, see below from a link in yours, supposedly was.

Labor lost the unlosable election – now it's up to Morrison to tell Australia his plan
The big losers are action on the climate emergency and the likelihood
that Labor will never be as ambitious with its policies again
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=148898595

As a result of that election loss Shorten lost the Labor leadership to Anthony Albanese.

The excerpt mentioned above

In September, a survey by the Australia Institute found that 81 percent of Australians believe climate change will result in more droughts and flooding (up from 78 percent in 2018). Two out of three Australians agreed that the government should plan for an orderly phaseout of coal, while 64 percent said Australia should aim for net-zero emissions by 2050.

And researchers continue to sound the alarm. A paper co-written by an Australian scientist and signed by 11,000 other experts warned on Wednesday of a clear “climate emergency.”

“There is high concern in Australia about climate change, but the political process doesn’t seem to be responding at all,” said David C. Holmes, director of Monash University’s Climate Change Communication Research Hub, which focuses on climate literacy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/06/world/australia/australia-climate-protests-coal.html

I thought Labor would win the last, but Morrison was more disingenuous and politically craftier then Shorten was.

Morrison is more of a churchgoer than Trump. He is more capable than Trump in general. He doesn't make so many outright lies, but spins well.

Though Morrison will personally have difficulty backing down from his climate change positions no doubt Australia's fire season will force some shift in the electorate, and in politics in general, back toward more environmental considerations.

Also we have - How Morrison's Snowy scheme will accelerate coal's demise
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=148370151

And yep, i have never voted conservative in any election anywhere.