OPINION: The Prime Minister will have taken satisfaction from watching Labor’s existential Green rivals paint themselves into a corner.
Four days after the Howard government’s 2007 election loss, Joe Hockey declared WorkChoices was dead.
The view is shared by the Liberal moderates who have made clear their displeasure at Dutton’s unilateral decision to reject Labor’s climate targets, rather than having a party room discussion.Tuesday’s belated party room meeting, which resulted in the conservatives being allowed to pursue nuclear power, while the moderates were afforded the opportunity to take a higher emissions reductions target to the next election, was a compromise that calmed the situation for now.
He regards political success on climate as coming up the middle, being beholden to neither the far Left, which would have us all shivering in the dark, or the right, elements of which are still grappling with the science of climate change. Despite the spectre of a deal being struck with the government, the Greens leader really spent the past few weeks negotiating more with his own party, after painting himself into a corner and then needing a way out.was a moratorium on all new coal and gas projects until at least the next COP27 climate change summit in Egypt in November.
While the perennial battle between the Coalition and Labor is about who forms government, the tussle with Greens is a more existential proposition as the minor party eats at Labor from the Left.
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