Posted on 11/12/2025 8:58:23 PM PST by nickcarraway
The Liberals are no closer to resolving internal divisions despite frontbenchers getting set to agree on dumping net-zero policy.
An announcement of dumping the policy, extending coal-fired power and embracing nuclear is expected to follow shortly after the party's shadow cabinet convenes in Canberra on Thursday.
The decision follows a five-hour meeting between all 51 Liberal MPs and senators, where a majority spoke in favour of ditching Australia's goal of net-zero emissions by 2050, according to people in the room.
Championed by the ascendant conservative faction, the party's climate shift is a blow for Liberal moderates who see their chances of winning back vital inner-city electorates diminished as a result.
Asked what he would say to colleagues who believe scrapping net zero will be electorally advantageous, South Australian senator Andrew McLachlan responded: 'You're wrong.'
'If you're going to argue that we're going to abandon net zero, you're going to be very alone in the community and also the business community. I think all levels of community have moved on,' he told ABC Radio National.
Senator McLachlan said he remained committed to the Liberal party regardless.
In contrast, moderate frontbenchers such as NSW senators Andrew Bragg and Maria Kovacic have flagged difficulty in remaining in shadow cabinet if it endorsed backing away from net zero by 2050.
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So they are RINOs?
Some group decides this is official liberal policy.
anyone who agrees to the hundreds of trillions of $$$ needed to transition to “wind” & “solar” after listening to the following needs their heads read:
AUDIO: 17 mins: 10 Nov: BBC Business Daily: What’s gone wrong with the Dutch power supply?
Business Daily
As the Netherlands shifts away from fossil fuels, thousands of homes and businesses are unable to connect to the grid.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct6ryj
amazing BBC would even broadcast the above. however, they have agreed to review their “climate” bias since the Trump J6 lie was exposed, so maybe they wanted to have something to show they weren’t “climate alarmists” of the worst kind.
9 Nov: NotALotOfPeopleKnowThat: Paul Homewood: BBC to review bias in climate change coverage
from comments:
Bernard Spencer Woodhall permalink
November 10, 2025 11:45 am
Any review would do well to start by reading the article by Christopher Booker (BBC’s bias on global warming: An inconvenient truth about climate change | Daily Mail Online) (LINK) which contained the following:
At a secret ‘high-level seminar’ in January 2006, 30 of the BBC’s most senior staff listened as a former president of the Royal Society, Lord May, told them that ‘the scientific debate over climate change’ was over, and that the BBC must ‘stop reporting the sceptics’. As a result, the BBC adopted a new editorial policy line, throwing any obligation to impartiality to the winds...
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/bbc-to-review-bias-in-climate-change-coverage/
who see their chances of winning back vital inner-city electorates diminished
Once again, the blind ambition to obtain and maintain power, at any cost.
Core beliefs, hah!
And, we now know just where Pelousy is headed after her 'retirement' in America.
She will probably lead "the party's shadow cabinet" .
Looks like net zero in Australia had a hiccup
Link is hard to read, due pop-ups.
If they scrap net zero they are ahead of Canada’s “Conservatives” who still cling to it.
Use an ad blocker like ghostery. Or Brave on android phone.
Sorry about that. I use Brave browser. Looks like their battery storage plant is out of commission or severely curtailed. It is not like they have a transformer of that size sitting around. It could take several years to obtain a new one.
“It is not like they have a transformer of that size sitting around. It could take several years to obtain a new one.”
The really large ones are from China, 8-year lead time at this point. By then the batteries in the plant will be near the end of their 10 year lifecycle.
Wow. It looks like the plant is still putting out less than half of the the original specs.
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