Labor using the pandemic to ‘ditch its absurd climate change policies’
Sky News host Chris Kenny says Labor is using the pandemic as an excuse for ditching its absurd climate change policies. The party won't take an emissions reduction target for 2030 to the next election, according to one draft version of its new platform, he said. Labor's backing away from their old target of 45 per cent reductions by 2030, effectively, this looks like a win for Joel Fitzgibbon and the pragmatic right-wing of the ALP. "Effectively, although they'll never say it, it means Labor's agreeing that the Paris target signed up to by the Coalition is good enough," Mr Kenny said. It comes as Labor Frontbencher Bill Shorten said during a recent interview, climate's important, but lets face it, so are jobs. What I learned out of the last election is that if you want to convince people about the value of taking action in climate, youve got to explain to people where the jobs are going to come from as well, Mr Shorten continued. If Shorten had been that pragmatic about climate policies, a couple of years back, less extreme, he'd probably be prime minister by now, Mr Kenny said. Still you have to give them credit for gently, belatedly moving to a slightly more sensible policy. Image: News Corp Read More Our Apps