Climate scientist Professor Tim Flannery (The Guardian, 17.5.16) says lack of attention to climate change so far in the election campaign is ‘staggering’ given it is Australia’s last chance to close down coal-fired power stations and save the reef: ‘This needs to be a reef election’.
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