Sunday night's debate between Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott clearly demonstrated Australia's urgent need for decisive, authentic, courageous and far-seeing leaders able to escape from populism.
Just three days ago I listened as a former CSIRO scientist said neither the Federal Government nor Opposition had the policies or the courage to implement changes to our society that would enable us to do what we could to address climate change.
Ms Gillard's idea that 150 ``ordinary people'' take on what is actually Parliament's responsibility to decide how we should deal with climate change...