Yeah, Australia. Settler colony incapable of achieving any form of meaningful reconciliation with its bloody history and the first peoples. Oh well.
Prime Ministers since 1901, obvs, but only the last 50 years really “matter” as far as climate change is concerned.
| Prime Minister | Party | Years in office | Brief description |
| Billy McMahon | Liberal | 1971–1972 | Asshole. Created first Minister for the Environment, dismissed ecological concerns |
| Gough Whitlam | Labor | 1972-1975 | Appointed a decent Minister for the Environment (Moss Cass). His Science Minister was persuaded to ask the AAS to produce a report on climatic change. Didn’t really maintain the rage |
| Malcolm Fraser | Liberal | 1975-1983 | Fanboyed coal. (probably) received an Office of National Assessments report on the Greenhouse Effect in late 1981 |
| Bob Hawke | Labor | 1983-1991 | Got the “greenhouse” bug in 1988, sort of. Talked a good game, while shilling coal. Probably a CIA asset of some sort. |
| Paul Keating | Labor | 1991-1996 | Awful on the greenhouse issue (“amorphous”) and not really any better on other environmental issues. On his watch, the delayers got their feet properly under the table. |
| John Howard | Liberal | 1996-2007 | There are not enough words for “asshole” in the English language to describe this asshole. His assholeness was not restricted to the greenhouse issue, obvs. |
| Kevin Rudd | Labor | 2007-2010 (and 2013) | Blowhard coward. HIs cynical use of climate change and then craven abandonment have poisoned climate politics for the following decade. |
| Julia Gillard | Labor | 2010- 2013 | Mostly bad at the retail side, but copped enormous flak for her lack of a penis. Least worst PM on climate? |
| Tony Abbott | Liberal | 2013-2015 | Vandal. Moron. Embarrassing. |
| Malcolm Turnbull | Liberal | 2015- 2018 | Talked a “good” game, but lacking in spine. |
| Scott Morrison | Liberal | 2018-2022 | Almost as bad as Howard, somehow. Coal-licking fool |
| Anthony Albanese | Labor | 2022- 2025 | Knew how to win elections but on climate no more than Liberal-lite, despite decades of making the right noises. |