And will they stay loyal? When I first started following politics, in the dying days of the McMahon LNP government, most people voted consistently for one or other of the two major parties, Labor a…
The ETS was widely considered to be worse than doing nothing for climate issues. Rudd’s government refused to talk to third parties over the ETS, and exclusively negotiated with the coalition. A year later the Gillard government actually talked to the cross bench and much, much better policy was passed.
The HAFF was passed, but only after the cross bench managed to eke out amendments to make it actually commit to doing something.
Both of those policies started as pure virtue signaling, and ended up doing material good only in spite of Labor.
The ETS was widely considered to be worse than doing nothing for climate issues. Rudd’s government refused to talk to third parties over the ETS, and exclusively negotiated with the coalition. A year later the Gillard government actually talked to the cross bench and much, much better policy was passed.
The HAFF was passed, but only after the cross bench managed to eke out amendments to make it actually commit to doing something.
Both of those policies started as pure virtue signaling, and ended up doing material good only in spite of Labor.
(I don’t know anything about the logging ban)