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Mark Butler

Mark Butler is the Australian Labor MP for Port Adelaide.

July 2017

  • A composite image of Australian Prime Ministers Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott

    How Australia bungled climate policy to create a decade of disappointment

    Unlike the UK, Australia has never had climate consensus – and it has been costly, argues Labor frontbencher Mark Butler in an extract from his book, Climate Wars

September 2015

  • Hazlewood coal-fired power station

    Malcolm Turnbull's Faustian pact on climate change is heartbreaking

    Mark Butler
    Many Australians hoped the new PM would drag the Coalition back to the sensible centre on climate change – but he has swallowed Abbott’s Direct Action hook, line and sinker

June 2015

  • Two elderly people sit on the blue chairs of the Promenade Des Anglais near the Mediterranean Sea during a warm and sunny day in Nice, southeastern France, June 3, 2015. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

    Our ageing population isn't a disaster. We have the tools to make it a triumph

    Mark Butler
    Population growth and climate change will present a mixed bag of blessings to Australia over the next 40 years. In the Bruce Childs lecture, Mark Butler argues that only social democratic parties can meet these challenges
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