What Albanese could have said: we lied - Australian coalmines have no future | Richard Flanagan

Richard Flanagan imagines an alternative speech from the Labor leader this week as the climate crisis ragesOn Monday, ahead of a visit to Queensland coalmining communities, Anthony Albanese announced that there would be no ending of coal exporting under a Labor government. Here is the text of an alternative speech the Labor leader could have given that day instead.Today we witness an unprecedented situation as a people and as a nation. Our country is burning and there is no end in sight, nor will there be an end unless we have the courage to face the truth. Our country is burning because it is warming up and drying out, and these things are happening because of a climate crisis for which human beings all over the world are responsible. Continue reading...