Just wrapped in Brisbane, this year's Australian Conservative Political Action Conference featured a galaxy of nutters vying for the votes of the disaffected, disorganised and dangerous.

Last week the Federal Court found that while the Torres Strait Islands, people and culture are being 'ravaged by human induced climate change' which poses 'an existential threat to the whole of humanity', the Australian government has no legal duty of care to protect the people of the Torres Strait from climate harm.

The prolific anti-fossil fuel campaigners are to meet with Federal Energy and Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen to raise concerns over Labor’s Future Gas Strategy.

Thanks to years of political inaction, Australia is one of the few countries in the world not to have a New Vehicle Efficiency Standard. The European Union, New Zealand and China have one. Even the United States has a standard, which means new cars in Australia use 20 per cent more fuel and create 20 per cent more pollution than their American counterparts. With the Albanese Government about to introduce legislation to correct this situation, the Coalition is busily dusting off the 'war on utes/the weekend' rhetoric.

The Coalition has produced a policy! Don't get too excited – this policy is recycled, and not in a good way – in fact it's radioactive. Like Robert Menzies, John Howard and Tony Abbott before him, Peter Dutton wants to legalise nuclear electricity generation in Australia.