Fairfax Ipsos poll shows climate change concerns heating up around Tony Abbott.
Six out of 10 of Australians think Tony Abbott’s Direct Action policy has left the country with an inadequate policy response to the problem of global warming, according to the latest Fairfax Ipsos poll.
The finding comes as Foreign Minister Julie Bishop attends a major international climate change conference in Peru, accompanied at the Prime Minister’s insistence, by Trade Minister and global warming sceptic, Andrew Robb.
His inclusion is being seen as a signal to those within the Coalition in favour of more ambitious emissions reduction targets that Mr Abbott remains opposed to ramping up policy even as the rest of the world positions to do so.
The phone survey of 1401 people taken between December 4 and 6, showed 57 per cent of respondents believed the Coalition’s proposed Direct Action policy was “too little” to deal with global warming.
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