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The latest Club Bloggery is up on the ABC. Here’s is the longer version.

By Jason Wilson, Barry Saunders, and Axel Bruns

Climate change dominated a couple of days of Federal Election campaigning earlier this week, with the major parties both fumbling in laying out their responses. Peter Garrett and Malcolm Turnbull were punished by the mainstream media for, respectively, revealing something approximating a real opinion about how climate change agreements should work, and for being involved in a debate about Government policy before it’s implemented.

Australia’s bloggers have been more nuanced in their coverage of environmental challenges over a much longer period, and unlike the mainstream media, they have been able to carry out analyses and host conversations that reveal the range of community opinions on what kind of shape our environment is in, and what we can or ought to do to remedy it.
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