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| Coalition reignites climate war over Labor's emissions policy – politics live | Coalition reignites climate war over Labor's emissions policy – politics live |
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| Government MPs have lashed out at Labor over its emissions target, while question time has begun with statements over the murder of Hannah Clarke and her children. All the days events, live | |
| Michael McCormack is now watching David Littleproud do his job. | |
| Angus Taylor answers a lickspittle on how amazing the government is on climate, because it is not worried at all, nope, no need to talk about this, because it is totally across it all. | |
| He is called back by Jim Chalmers with this question: | |
| Taylor: | |
| It’s not just me | |
| Joel Fitzgibbon to Michael McCormack (yet another of his sins) | |
| Is the government aware that both the National farmers Federation and Meat and Livestock Australia have plans for their sectors to be carbon neutral by 2030? | |
| Only McCormack can make this three minutes stretch to four years. The election has come and gone. No one noticed because the climate wars have become so serious, Australian society is now divided by tribes, only recognisable by the shibboleth of how they pronounce “ideological” | |
| Oh – McCormack didn’t answer the question, because he is seemingly incapable of answering anything, unless it includes some made up country homily that played well in front of his shaving mirror. | |
| Accidentally letting out his secrets on how he makes policy decisions, Michael McCormack advises Labor to “look a steer in the eye” and ask it how it will stop its methane. | |
| I tell you what, methane emissions could drop right now if the deputy prime minister shut his mouth. | |
| For the record, the National Farmers’ Federation and Meat and Livestock Australia are both aiming for carbon neutrality by 2030. | |
| Michael McCormack has been summoned. | |
| It’s something that happens when you place white bread in a toaster and hit the lever three times. | |
| Zali Steggall asks Scott Morrison about the cost of climate inaction. | |
| She receives a bunch of slogans for her troubles. | |
| Anthony Albanese to Scott Morrison: | Anthony Albanese to Scott Morrison: |
| Does the prime minister agree with the liberal premier of New South Wales that her government’s target of net zero emissions by 2050 is consistent with both the Paris agreement and the federal government’s own commitment to the Paris agreement? | |
| Morrison: | Morrison: |
| It continues in this vein. | |
| Another “how amazing are we when it comes to climate” dixer (so far, it has been Jason Falinski and Dave Sharma asking the questions – two of the self-declared “modern Liberals” – so you know the government is *serious* about this, because here are two people who can say the words “climate change action” without choking). | |
| Anthony Albanese to Angus Taylor: | |
| Isn’t it the case cabinet committed to net zero emissions by 2050 when it signed up to the Paris agreement? | |
| Taylor: | |
| Taylor to Sky News this morning: | |
| The first dixer is on how amazing the government’s climate policy is. | |
| SO, SO amazing. It’s basically as if Blue Ivy grew up to take her rightful place as the ruler of us all, it is that amazing and special. | |
| And it’s all been achieved without a carbon price, says Scott Morrison. | |
| Except ... it counts emissions reductions from when Labor was in power and had a carbon price, so that’s not entirely right. | |
| Anthony Albanese to Scott Morrison: | |
| Can the prime minister confirm he suggested to the New South Wales premier that the scope of the bushfire recovery cleanup funding proposal by NSW was not consistent with the black Saturday framework, in a bid to reduce the costs to the federal government? | |
| Morrison: | |
| There is a moment of silence for Hannah Clarke and her family. | There is a moment of silence for Hannah Clarke and her family. |
| Then the questions begin. | |
| Anthony Albanese: | Anthony Albanese: |
| No one is saying Baxter represents all men. | No one is saying Baxter represents all men. |
| That Pauline Hanson pulls out that card, at this time, is abhorrent. | That Pauline Hanson pulls out that card, at this time, is abhorrent. |
| Pauline Hanson’s statement in the Senate is long on condemnation on Rowan Baxter but its ultimate conclusion was simply this: not all men. | Pauline Hanson’s statement in the Senate is long on condemnation on Rowan Baxter but its ultimate conclusion was simply this: not all men. |
| Hanson described the murders as the “ultimate act of betrayal” and a “calculated, cowardly and evil act”. | Hanson described the murders as the “ultimate act of betrayal” and a “calculated, cowardly and evil act”. |
| The incident has “further added fuel to an already twisted and difficult family law debate”, she said, adding that “many decent men are deprived of their parental rights”. | The incident has “further added fuel to an already twisted and difficult family law debate”, she said, adding that “many decent men are deprived of their parental rights”. |
| She concluded: | She concluded: |
| In the Senate, the MPs are also taking time to honour Hannah Clarke and her children. | In the Senate, the MPs are also taking time to honour Hannah Clarke and her children. |