Greens leader says ALP will lose again if it retreats from climate action, and coal workers deserve ‘honest conversation’ about transition from fossil fuelsGreens leader Richard Di Natale says Labor has learned “all the wrong lessons” from its election defeat, warning that a retreat from action on climate change will see it lose the next election. “People were given a choice between a party of climate change deniers … and another party that had different positions on issues like coalmining depending on what audience they were talking to,” Di Natale said. But Di Natale said the coal industry was on track to shut down regardless of the two major parties positions, and accused the Coalition and Labor of giving coal communities “false hope” that they had a future. He also said the inquiry would be an opportunity for the Labor party to declare its vision for jobs in regional communities, saying they needed to “make a choice” on the coal industry. “Labor clearly needs to make a choice – are they going to continue to be Liberal lite … or embrace what this future could be for people?”

Source: The Guardian September 30, 2019 18:00 UTC