Exclusive: motion from Barnaby Joyce’s federal electorate council calls on Nationals to back away from commitment, threatening to reopen acrimonious debate
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The new motion – which some party sources interpret as a strategic strike intended to destabilise Littleproud’s leadership – has alarmed moderate Liberals because the Nationals abandoning net zero would reopen an acrimonious internal Coalition discussion about climate policy. Joyce made it clear during Nationals party room discussion to settle the policy commitment he did not support net zero. But a majority of his colleagues – including Littleproud – did. Interms, Littleproud, historically, has been significantly more progressive on the climate transition than Joyce.
Joyce said he would express a view on the motion at the Nationals’ conference “but right now in New England and many parts of Australia the biggest issue I’m getting run over with is transmission lines, the diminution of value of people’s properties and ... being surrounded by a new industrial park”.
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