Abbott and Co. are firmly in the corner of Big Coal, not even excepting the so-called Minister for the Environment, Greg Hunt (some people like to vary the spelling of his second name).
Never do I recall such a short-sighted government, so firmly in bed with the biggest polluters; the industrials and the mining industry. It's hard to know what their long-term plans for the country are - I'm inclined to believe they're thinking only of the cushy jobs waiting for them when their term in power has ended, because it's truly very hard to discern what their ultimate goals are if they're not simply acting in their own self-interest.
We can only hope that, like Big Tobacco, constant lobbying by people who really think will gradually change public opinion. If Abbott's polling is any indication, it seems he's not taking the whole country with him, not by a long shot, and I hope he will be a one-term prime minister.
But I could wish for a bit more life and energy to be breathed into Opposition Leader Bill Shorten - he's got nothing to lose by taking the fight directly to the government, but he's strangely listless, and we can only fear what damage will be done in the next two years by Abbott while Labor gives him a clear run.
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