We now know that for a decade the Howard Government's policies have been not so much influenced but actually written by a tiny cabal of
powerful fossil fuel lobbyists representing the very
corporations whose commercial interests would be affected by any move to reduce Australia's burgeoning greenhouse gas emissions.
This fight, to move away from
fossil fuels as rapidly as possible, to push
fossil fuel companies to either change their polluting ways or eliminate them entirely if they won't, to curtail the deeply damaging influence these
powerful corporations, beholden to nothing but their profits, is the fight of our times.