5 years ago
LIBERALS DOUBLE DOWN ON TONY ABBOTT’S FAILED CLIMATE POLICY
MARK BUTLER MP
Scott Morrison and the Liberals will go to any length to avoid taking serious action on climate change.
If the Liberals were serious about climate change, Malcolm Turnbull would still be Prime Minister. Instead, Scott Morrison, the Prime Minister who brought a lump of coal into Parliament, has now fully embraced Tony Abbott’s climate policy - a policy that sees taxpayers footing the bill for big polluters.
After five years and $2.25 billion spent, the ineffective Emissions Reduction Fund only saw pollution go up, and up, and up. Malcolm Turnbull was right when he famously described Tony Abbott’s climate change plan as a “figleaf to cover a determination to do nothing.”
The Government’s own data shows carbon pollution levels have been rising since the election of Tony Abbott as Prime Minister, with Australia on track to miss the Government’s already inadequate 2030 climate target of a 26 per cent cut in carbon pollution by a full 19 per cent.
Throwing a further $2 billion of taxpayers money at Tony Abbott’s signature policy shows the Liberals will never take climate change seriously. If Scott Morrison was really serious about tackling climate change, he would dump his plans to spend even more taxpayers money on building new coal-fired power stations.
Only Labor has a plan to invest in renewables and tackle climate change with our 50 per cent renewables target by 2030 and emissions reduction target of 45 per cent by 2030.
If the Liberals were serious about climate change, Malcolm Turnbull would still be Prime Minister. Instead, Scott Morrison, the Prime Minister who brought a lump of coal into Parliament, has now fully embraced Tony Abbott’s climate policy - a policy that sees taxpayers footing the bill for big polluters.
After five years and $2.25 billion spent, the ineffective Emissions Reduction Fund only saw pollution go up, and up, and up. Malcolm Turnbull was right when he famously described Tony Abbott’s climate change plan as a “figleaf to cover a determination to do nothing.”
The Government’s own data shows carbon pollution levels have been rising since the election of Tony Abbott as Prime Minister, with Australia on track to miss the Government’s already inadequate 2030 climate target of a 26 per cent cut in carbon pollution by a full 19 per cent.
Throwing a further $2 billion of taxpayers money at Tony Abbott’s signature policy shows the Liberals will never take climate change seriously. If Scott Morrison was really serious about tackling climate change, he would dump his plans to spend even more taxpayers money on building new coal-fired power stations.
Only Labor has a plan to invest in renewables and tackle climate change with our 50 per cent renewables target by 2030 and emissions reduction target of 45 per cent by 2030.