For Australia, unmitigated climate change will come at a huge economic cost, not least of which will include severe and damaging impacts to the nation’s infrastructure and the death of ecosystems such as the Great Barrier Reef. Australia needs to reduce pollution and take serious action against dangerous climate change. That’s why a Shorten Labor Government will: Introduce a domestic emissions trading scheme that will have two distinct phases.
for economic orthodoxy, for example reduction of budget deficits, thrift or a strong currency