Growing signs that Coalition leadership could swing weight behind bill to alter constitution. Follow the day’s news liveGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastDuring an interview with RN Breakfast yesterday, Jacqui Lambie said if the safeguard mechanism, which she called a good ‘starting point’ failed to get through it would be the “Greens’ fault” and she wanted to see an end to the climate wars, and something started.Adam Bandt very gently points out that Lambie was elected as part of the Palmer United Party, which was created, originally, in opposition to the carbon price and Lambie was part of the senate group which voted to repeal that legislation – which is one of the reasons Australia has been in climate policy limbo for the last decade.57% of the population does not want to open new coal and gas mines and I think there’s a very clear message coming through there. Secondly, no I have got a lot of time for Jacqui Lambie, but we had a an emissions trading scheme in this country and she was part of a party that voted to repeal it so let’s let’s not get too carried away with the spin here.We’re in a climate crisis, as the UN Secretary General has made clear the decisions that we make now will reverberate for generations to come and the big decisions that we’ve got to make, do we open new coal and gas mines or not?Now what we’ve said what others have said is, well, why not put something in the legislation that actually requires permission to go down so that these corporations can’t offset their way out of the crisis? Continue reading...
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