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A network of climate academics called Net Zero Australia say the actual cost of building a low-carbon energy system to Australians would be about $300bn * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast In seeking to prosecute its backflip on net zero and opening yet another chapter in the endless climate wars, the Nationals leader, David Littleproud, and other prominent conservatives have claimed Labor’s emissions reduction plans would cost Australians up to $9tn. But the group who many quote for that figure, a network of climate academics called Net Zero Australia (NZA), say critics are “misrepresenting” their findings. They say the $9tn price tag is for a different figure, and isn’t the cost to be borne by Australians. Continue reading...

Finance minister Katy Gallagher says the public service is building its own artificial intelligence program and spruiks productivity benefits

Division remains half a century on from Gough Whitlam’s historic dismissal, but there was a spark of common ground

Exclusive: Jason Falinski says cutting net zero would tell young Australians ‘we have given up’ and could have negative impact at next election

BoM’s statement comes after federal environment minister says site refresh ‘not meeting many users’ expectations’

Voters also unconvinced by Albanese’s Aukus and critical minerals deal with Trump

While the opposition leader criticised the prime minister’s clothing as a ‘profound failure of judgment’, Albanese posted he was ‘getting things done’

The warmness shown by the US president was held up as vindication of the PM’s foreign policy acumen, and the nerve he had shown in not begging for an earlier meeting

Speaking in Washington, the prime minister downplayed US comments about ‘ambiguity’ but conceded he knows that the Pentagon want some updates

President says US has no better friend than Australia but tells ambassador Kevin Rudd “I don’t like you’

Strip away the pinball machines and photo booth props at Cpac, and the scale of Ley’s challenge in simply keeping the Coalition alive, let alone making it competitive again, becomes clear

Strip away the pinball machines and photo booth props at Cpac, and the scale of Ley’s challenge in simply keeping the Coalition alive, let alone making it competitive again, becomes clear * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Aside from one crude caricature distributed in the crowd, Liberal leader Sussan Ley’s name was almost entirely absent from the rightwing Conservative Political Action Conference in Brisbane. But stripping away the sideshow attractions – Pauline Hanson’s pinball machine, George Christensen’s photo booth props – the thread running through the two-day event was the challenge Ley has to simply hold her party together amid a volatile fracturing of the conservative landscape, let alone for the Coalition to be competitive again. Continue reading...

Former PM, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and conference chair Warren Mundine among speakers urging conservative voters to unite

Liberal leader later clarifies she doesn’t support setting targets while in opposition Liberal leader Sussan Ley has indicated the Coalition won’t set a 2030 or 2035 climate target unless they one day return to government, saying her colleagues didn’t back locking in an emissions goal while they remained in opposition. It came as Ley had to clean up her own error, claiming she “misspoke” after initially saying her party “don’t believe in setting targets at all from opposition or from government”. She later clarified she only meant in opposition, prompting ridicule from Anthony Albanese who claimed the opposition “changes its policies from hour to hour”. Continue reading...

Liberal leader later clarifies she doesn’t support setting targets while in opposition