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Liberal MP Dave Sharma wants Australia to act with a “higher level of ambition” to combat climate change.

In an opinion piece the member for Wentworth wrote in his local paper, he said it was "clear climate change fuelled the ferocity of this season's bushfires".

Mr Sharma said although government was on track to meet its 2030 targets the transition towards renewables “needs to be happening at a faster rate”. Image: News Corp Australia

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