BREAKING Tony Abbott performs major backflip on withdrawing from Paris climate agreement
Tony Abbott has backflipped on his call for Australia to withdraw from the landmark Paris agreement, saying the federal government has lost the “emissions obsession” it held under former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull.
Mr Abbott signed Australia up to the Paris agreement in 2015. But after losing the prime ministership to Mr Turnbull, he said the nation should follow the lead of United States president Donald Trump and withdraw from the deal.Mr Abbott has held Warringah since 1994 and was returned in 2016 with a margin of more than 11 per cent.
Mr Abbott was responding to comments by Ms Steggall that hydro-storage power – such as Mr Turnbull’s Snowy 2.0 legacy project - was “cheaper than new coal-fired power stations”. “We are now able to have lower emissions and lower prices but we need to plan it using engineering [and] economics rather than ideology and innumerate idiocy.”
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