Soon after becoming PM, Tony Abbott moved to abolish funding for the Climate Commission. On 19.9.2013 Peter Hannam's article included:
"... The Abbott government's plan to make scrapping the Climate Commission and the Climate Change Authority among its first priorities will deprive Australians of independent information on global warming just when it is needed most, leading scientists say. ..."
"... The new government is also drawing up legislation to scrap the carbon price and has ordered the $10 billion Clean Energy Finance Corporation to cease lending. ..."
Small wonder that UNESCO said "NO!". That may even mark the beginning of such treatment of Australia, marking Abbott's transformation into a nation treated like North Korea and Iran.
