Australia, welcome to your new climate change policy
Australia is supposed to be immune to fact-free, angry populism. But our democratic consensus is fragile too.
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Jacqueline Maley
Jacqueline Maley is the Canberra-based Parliamentary Sketch Writer for The Sydney Morning Herald.
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