Australian Climate Policy and Diplomacy - 9781138323827

Taylor & Francis

Australian Climate Policy and DiplomacyGovernment-Industry Discourses\nAuthor(s): Ben L. Parr\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138323827, 978-1138323827\nSynopsis\nAustralian Climate Policy and Diplomacy provides a well overdue critique of existing, and high-profile, publications that convey the greenhouse mafia hypothesis, which posits that Australias weak policy response to climate change is the result of a menacing domestic fossil fuel lobby.\n\nBen L. Parr argues that the shared governmentindustry discourse about protecting Australias industrial competitiveness has had a more decisive influence in shaping and legitimising Australian climate policy than the direct lobbying tactics of the fossil fuel industry. Parr also reveals how the divergent foreign policy discourses and traditions of Australias two major political parties as internationalist versus alliance-focused have enabled and constrained their clim.