@inproceedings{10095c3d49654165ab8622f66f6c967f,
title = "It's the economy, stupid : ethics and political discourse in the Australian climate change debate",
abstract = "The issue of climate change has had a significant and polarising impact on the Australian political landscape in recent years and has been a pivotal issue around which the political fortunes of several of the major players in Australian politics have revolved. While Kevin Rudd's call to arms for action on the 'great moral challenge of a generation' was rhetorically memorable, the major discursive focus to date has been on the need to develop policies that do not significantly impact the economic status quo. But to what extent does the continuing narrow focus on economic impacts ignore other ethical questions that lie at the heart of need for substantive, but potentially politically more difficult, responses to climate change? This paper overviews the economic frame through which climate change has been debated in Australia since 2007 and discusses some of the ethical questions which underpin this frame.",
keywords = "climatic changes, economic aspects, ethics, political science, Australia",
author = "Myra Gurney",
year = "2012",
language = "English",
publisher = "Australia and New Zealand Communications Association",
pages = "1--17",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association Conference: ANZCA 2012 Adelaide: Communicating Change and Changing Communication in the 21st Century, 4-6 July 2012, Adelaide, Australia",
note = "Australian and New Zealand Communication Association Conference ; Conference date: 04-07-2012",
}