Barnaby Joyce argued on the Nationals conference floor that the move to net zero was the “most substantive change to the economics of this nation”.
Nationals frontbencher Barnaby Joyce has failed in his bid to secure broader grassroots support to abolish the party’s policy of reaching net zero emissions by 2050, in a fiery free-wheeling debate on the floor of the Nationals Federal Conference.
Joyce, who was backed by Nationals senator Matt Canavan in objecting to the motion being changed, argued on the conference floor that the move to net zero was the “most substantive change to the economics of this nation”. “In the eyes of many Australians, we will look indecisive and even recalcitrant if we flip on net zero now, and if we do, if we’re really that careless, we would hand the Albanese government a quiver of arrows that they would fire on us again and again and again,” Mitchell Dickens, a delegate from the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, said.
Speaking to the media outside the conference, Joyce said he had “no interest” in returning to the leadership.
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