ANALYSIS: For this conservative party, the path to power is turning green. Could others follow?
abc.net.au/news/clp-turning-green-for-2024/101375692Just over two years ago, the Country Liberal Party entered the race for a by-election in Darwin's leafy northern suburbs with a candidate who dismissed concerns about climate change out of hand.the candidate Josh Thomas told an ABC reporter"That's a fact. We had an ice age 15,000 years ago. Where were the Greens then? The issue is people need jobs.
"We're literally in the week that marks two years until the 2024 election and our minds are certainly open to new and innovative policy going forward," she said, not ruling those stricter benchmarks out. Labor's primary vote slumped by more than 15 per cent , but preferences carried it to victory on two-party terms.
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