The Daily Telegraph’s Tim Blair reminisces on the Teals during the COVID-19 pandemic, labelling their rhetoric “hectoring and annoying”.

“During the period of COVID, we did have people, you know, who otherwise lived perfectly fine boring lives, but suddenly, they felt they were a part of something really important, you know, the survival of the species itself,” Mr Blair said.

“They had to watch every you know those horrible, horrible, months of premiers and health officials … people would watch them intently, because they felt like they were part of something crucial.

“And that’s basically, again, what the climate activist movement is all about, so they’ve just transferred one passion to another, and it all ends up doing the same thing, telling us what to do in a very hectoring and annoying way.”