Albanese targets Greens on ‘gesture-based’ climate politics in speech defending Labor’s business policies

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PM says Labor’s nature-positive legislation provides ‘vital certainty’ and talks up mutual respect in an address before the Business Council of Australia

Anthony Albanese said Labor had ‘stood up for some of Australia’s biggest employers’, targeting the Greens and the Coalition in a wide-ranging speech.Anthony Albanese said Labor had ‘stood up for some of Australia’s biggest employers’, targeting the Greens and the Coalition in a wide-ranging speech.

Labor has come under fire from the BCA and the Minerals Council, who are fighting a rearguard action against industrial relations changes including multi-employer bargaining –Albanese told the BCA Labor had “brought vital certainty to energy policy, after the chaos of the climate wars”. He said the BCA had backed Labor’s 2030 target of 43% emissions reduction and its commitment to net zero by 2050.

Albanese said he is “optimistic” about achieving economic reform with business “by recognising each other’s strengths, respecting each other’s views and valuing each other’s contribution”. The BCA president, Geoff Culbert, said the council will “continue to argue strongly against counter-productive IR changes”, “forced divestiture”, climate triggers and “self-destructive over-taxation”.

 

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