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In his first major speech for the year, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has defended his climate credentials at the National Press Club insisting any future use from his government of Kyoto credits is hypocritical.

"It was the Labor government that made carry-over credits a condition of their signing up to the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol, so

I'm not copping lectures from that lot," Mr Morrison said. "Building dams and improving planning for natural disasters is the climate action we need."

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