The Liberals were a no-show at a packed climate change forum Monday night with Tangney MP Dennis Jensen pulling out and no other Liberal willing to stand in.

The WA Civil Society roundtable at UWA was hosted by Fiona Stanley and saw Labor’s Alannah MacTiernan debating Fremantle-based Greens senator Scott Ludlam, with no-one on hand to explain or defend the Coalition’s “direct action” climate change policy.

by DAVID BELL