I n an age of monumental political shifts, the news that the Coalition doesn’t like , and very likely won’t support, Labor’s proposed revamp of national nature law has at least had one thing going for it. It is achingly predictable.

I mean … of course it was going to go this way. Australia’s rightwing parties are a mess, and threatening to tear themselves apart. It’s possible not every Coalition MP dismisses the evidence that the country’s extraordinary and unique environment is in long-term decline. But a significant number do.

Sussan Ley and David Littleproud are battling to hold their parties together and keep their jobs. The idea that a deal could be landed, with the support of the Nationals and many Liberals, that includes even mild nods to improving nature protection was alway

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