In this episode, Ben Oquist talks to John Hewson — former Liberal leader, Professor at the ANU Crawford School of Public Policy and former member for Wentworth — about climate change and Liberal party politics and Dr Hewson did not hold back.

This episode is an excerpt of our Politics in the Pub event in Canberra on 12 September, following John Hewson’s launch of Climate of the Nation 2018, a benchmark survey of Australian attitudes towards climate change that has been running for over 10 years.

>>Read the full Climate of the Nation report here<<

Host: Ebony Bennett, Deputy Director at The Australia Institute // @ebony_bennett

Contributors: 
John Hewson, Professor at ANU Crawford School of Public Policy, former Liberal party leader, former member for Wentworth 
Ben Oquist, Executive Director at The Australia Institute // @benoquist

Producer: Jennifer Macey // @jennifermacey

Audio recording provided by Clayton McDonald.

Title Track: Jonathan McFeat pulseandthrum.com

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