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& #39;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& #39;s voluminous comments on the issue

It doesn& #39;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& #39;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