In Australia, "transitioning away from polluting industries without leaving workers in the lurch" means keeping coal mines open indefinitely and opening as many new ones as possible. No party could present a realistic labour force transition plan without being seen as anti-miner

It's not possible to speak over the howing and hollering the minute you get close to a serious conversation about how to achieve this. If you think the ALP are capable of navigating the challenge this represents, take a look at Jeff Drayton's voluminous comments on the issue

It doesn't help that most serious commentators on Aussie politics seem to believe the ALP lost the last election over coal mining, and seem 100% invested in the idea that you can't present the electorate with a plan to decarbonise the economy and expect to win seats

The media frame has really solidified around stories about climate activists (mostly school-aged, rarely given more than a sentence of airtime) and the mining communities that hold the key to electoral power. This is a huge change from how things were presented in say 2007