Commentary
The Climate 200 group is running 22 “independents” in the Australian federal election to challenge the incumbent Coalition government from its left flank.
With preferences for the Australia Labor Party (ALP), these “independents” have a real chance of winning a handful of inner-city seats in Sydney and Melbourne currently held by the Liberal Party. If these “independents” win enough of these seats, it would make it impossible for the Coalition to win the election.
Climate 200 was created by the wealthy Simon Holmes à Court as a result of a disagreement between him and federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg.
Holmes à Court, who lives in Frydenberg’s Kooyong constituency, ran a pro-Liberal Party fundraising group called Kooyong 200. But after Holmes à Court wrote a column in the Guardian newspaper attacking the Morrison government for extending the lifeline of the Liddell coal-fired power plant-friendly relations between Frydenberg’s constituency office and Holmes à Court ended.
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