During climate activist Zali Steggall’s successful bid to topple the former Prime Minister Tony Abbott at the last federal election, she apostatised that Australia ‘can’t let coal companies and lobbyists buy their way into our government’.

Until now, the ‘Independent’ member for the federal seat of Warringah has acted on her election promises with unsuccessful bills aimed at adopting extreme climate action plans and also the introduction of a federal anti-corruption body.