Climate Control
David Rowe
The ‘teal independents’, mostly first-time MPs, negotiated with the Albanese government to amend Labor’s climate target bill. The teal-backed amendments included requirements that emissions reduction be based on the best available science and that the agreed-to 43 per cent reduction target be seen as the minimum standard.
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