Peter Garrett (Kingsford Smith, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts) Share this | Hansard source

That is not the full story, because, as we saw in the Sydney Morning Herald of 28 July, not only did the previous government spend 12 years denying the science, they then spent about 12 months pretending to care. This was what an anonymous coalition MP said about their colleagues:

... 70 per cent either does not believe in climate change or is plain sceptical.

That was the same MP who said:

We were staring at an electoral abyss. We had to pretend we cared.

The problem with pretending to care—

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