We've just reached a hinge point for Australia's climate policy — and it sends a crucial message

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ANALYSIS: We've just reached a hinge point for Australia's climate policy — and it sends a crucial message

Perhaps not since the marriage equality vote has the passage of a bill in the House of Representatives carried such a combination of substantive and symbolic import as the Albanese government's climate legislation.

It showed, in the government's prior negotiations with the Greens, that Labor would resist pressure from the minor party.However, on Thursday Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek did reject one new venture, announcing she, backed by Clive Palmer, which would have "unacceptable impacts" on the Great Barrier Reef.

Peter Dutton made a captain's call in declaring it would vote against the legislation. While most of his colleagues were so inclined, it was a poor precedent for the new leader to pre-empt this week's party room discussion. Tasmanian Liberal Bridget Archer crossed the floor to vote with Labor. Opposition Senate leader Simon Birmingham said if the 43 per cent target had required legislation, then "I would have wanted to vote for it in a heartbeat. However, it doesn't require legislation."The Opposition has been left looking like a stranded asset on the climate issue, adrift from a pragmatic business community that wants to promote confidence.

 

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Black Summer fire plume .Co2 Ppm ? Today? Encircled this planet.GONE Petrochemical industry includes gastivists protest ,WoodsideWatch enemies. ALL SUBSTRUCTURAL BALLOON GAS , irreversible structural, integrity. Short term cash cow ,Long term EndofUnivers detritus storms.

Failing to target,Working week ,traffic plumes,and it's sister Aviation overhead ,back at ya. Proves this govt ,BuisnessAsUsual, Is a total dud .Short term.Long term? ,AlboMP just another MPSWestminster , franchisee. Coal won't ever darken sky, like Black Summer fires.smh

DEAD IN THE WATER!

‘We’re ready to bankrupt our country so that the planet will be 0.00001 degrees cooler in a hundred years, even if China’s new coal power stations increase the global temperature by 4 degrees. ‘It’s the gesture that matters.’

Even flat-Earthers are entitled to representation in parliament. Btw what happened to the billions the Nationals extorted for their support of net zero?

Where is the forensic analysis ? Of course not for ALP

LNP were sitting on their arsets for 9 years.

What a load of woak renewable climate change religious lefty rubbish!! ABC you are an embarrassment a national disgrace.

It does send a crucial message. The message is politically on climate the country is batshit crazy and will lose all its energy security for the economy and Australians will be paying the price for this ideology. Dear oh dear...

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