If this quote is in any way representative of those in charge, that's quite depressing:

“We are looking at climate, of course, (but) climate has been changing since year dot,” he said, before adding: “We don’t want to go down a path of renewables, which is not going to solve anything apart from de-industrialising Australia and making sure we don’t do manufacturing here and pushing electricity bills into the unaffordable state.”

Coincidentally, I'm doing a module in logical fallacies. This quote is full of them. Maybe I can use it in class. In fact, by golly, I think I will.