Jul 28, 2026 – 10.30pmLeading environmental advocate and former Treasury secretary Ken Henry says Australia’s entire climate change policy architecture, which has been painstakingly built over the past two decades, is at risk of disappearing – and those on both sides of the debate are to blame.In a keynote speech to the Clean Energy Council to be delivered on Wednesday, Henry says the same “second-rate partisans with first-rate egos” who led Australia to junk a price on carbon – which he describes as “the world’s most economically and scientifically rational climate policy” – are at it again.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Fetching latest articles
Climate policy at risk of collapse and both sides to blame: Henry
Australia’s climate policy architecture is under siege from the right and the left of the political spectrum, says Ken Henry.
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