I've linked to the article in todays AFR but its paywalled. A few things struck me,

• the authors seeming incredulity that the only federal politcans who seem at all concrerned are The Greens.
• The second was a comment by one of the scientists that whike there are many 10s of thoisands of dead individual animals, many 100s of species will go extinct from this and this is directly related to climate chanhe
• The third, he points to the irony of the Australian Governments attempt to lobby to host the climate change COP in Adelaide, flying something like 20,000 delegates to the gab fest its becone at the bottom of the world and the enormous emissions from doing so.