Conservative but green independent MP Zali Steggall could break the government’s climate policy deadlock
- Written by Kate Crowley, Associate Professor, Public and Environmental Policy, University of Tasmania
When barrister, former world champion alpine skier, and now independent MP Zali Steggall took Tony Abbott’s New South Wales seat of Warringah in the 2019 election, she promised to pressure the government for action on climate change.
She was voicing the heightened concern in Warringah about climate change and the environment, and repudiating...