Education Minister Jason Clare has admonished the Coalition for vowing to drop out Australia’s 2030 climate target.
Education Minister Jason Clare and shadow housing minister Michael Sukkar have towed their party lines on Sunday in the wake of Coalition Leader Peter Dutton 's plan to drop Australia's "unachievable" 2030 climate target.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton said if elected he would oppose Labor’s 43 per cent carbon emissions reduction target by 2030. Picture: Daria Nipot/ Getty Images Mr Clare said the Labor government opposed introducing nuclear energy into the mix because it “costs a bomb”. “The truth is that target requires us to have as a precondition 82 per cent renewables for our energy system, and we got less than half of that at the moment.”
Shadow housing and homelessness minister Michael Sukkar said there was “no way” Australia would meet the target. Picture: Sky News Australia
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