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It's the 10-year anniversary of our climate policy abyss. But don't blame the Greens

  • Written by Rebecca Pearse, Lecturer, Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney
In 2009, a Bob Brown-led Greens party voted against an emissions trading scheme – but they can't be blamed for what came after.Mick Tsikas/AAP

Federal Labor this week commemorated a dubious anniversary – a decade of climate policy failure. And it pointed the finger of blame squarely at the Greens.

Labor claimed that had the Greens not...

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