Australia politics live: Watt condemns Coalition plan to split environment laws; Joyce says ‘I’m still in the National party’
New nature laws expected to be introduced this week but Labor’s hopes of passing them before Christmas appear slim. Follow the latest updates live
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Staying with Angie Bell, there’s a big question mark over whether the Liberal party and the National party will keep a commitment to the net zero by 2050 target.
Today Nationals senator (and net zero skeptic) Matt Canavan will present his review of the 2050 target to his partyroom.
The National Party is undertaking their own review process, as is the Liberal Party, and we’ll continue to work through those processes because what Susan Lee has said is she wants to see affordable and reliable energy for Australians”“But we also need to play our role in emissions reduction. And so that is why the Coalition is reviewing our energy policy.
I think some of the things around regional planning certainly have merit, but we’ll work through all of the detail when it lands because we really only have some of the bill, and the minister has said he will introduce it this week into the parliament.
The minister has put in some of Graeme Samuel’s recommendations and others that he hasn’t. For example, the premise of Graeme Samuel review was that there be a commission for the environment, and instead, what’s happened is the minister has put out there an EPA, an environmental protection agency, which was a promise by the Prime Minister at the election before the last one. And so there are some things that are straight out of the Samuel review playbook, and there are elements in there of uncertainty… And also, very, very high penalties that were higher than Tanya Plibersek’s natural positive laws.
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