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    15 Of Tony Abbott’s Most Epic Environmental Fails

    A year ago Australia elected a conservative Coalition government. So far we know the PM can’t stand trees, fresh air and sunshine. He's doing it wrong.

    1. He proudly killed the working carbon price

    2. Yet...every year the Australian Government spends billions of taxpayer dollars on fossil fuel subsidies

    3. He has a draft ‘climate policy’ that experts think is ridiculous

    4. He went and fired the expert body that provided accurate climate science to the public

    5. Then he asked a former Caltex chairman to review the Renewable Energy Target

    6. Now he’s trying to crush the Clean Energy Finance Corporation

    7. There was the time he tried to delist ancient Tasmanian World Heritage forests

    8. And then his counterparts in Tasmania axed a hard-won peace deal between conservationists and the timber industry

    9. He’s messing with Australia’s world-renowned marine sanctuaries

    10. He’s desperate to give states the power to destroy global treasures like the Great Barrier Reef

    11. And recently he approved Australia’s most crazy carbon-intensive coal mine

    12. Don’t forget his slashing of nature protection funding

    13. And busting up the National Water Commission

    14. And if all that wasn't enough he's also defunded Environment Defenders

    15. And now remember to breathe...