Australian decision-time
Australia was the setting and location for On The Beach, Stanley Kramer’s 1959 film of the novel by Nevil Shute about a post-nuclear-war world. Ava Gardner famously said of Melbourne that she could not think of a better place to make a movie about the end of the world.
Well, the end of the world — and climate change — has become a key campaign issue in Australia’s Federal election, to be held on 24 November. The current conservative administration of John Howard has mostly followed the anti-Kyoto line of George W. Bush, but this policy will change markedly if Labor’s Kevin Rudd is elected. Labor is currently ahead in the polls.
An article from the Sydney Morning Herald on the policy differences between the major parties is here.