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Ron Boswell

Dropping net zero dead parrot ditches deceiving the Australian people

The Coalition has, belatedly, settled on a game changing strategy focused on affordable and reliable energy, one based on a technology agnostic approach calibrated to international action.

I spent 30 years in the Australian Senate. Over that time, my colleagues and I were presented with plenty of difficult political choices and a few easy ones.

The decision to drop net zero by 2050 is an easy one. It’s easy because persisting with net zero by 2050 involves deliberate deception of the Australian people. Global net zero by 2050 is not going to happen. It’s as dead as the blue Norwegian parrot in the Monty Python sketch.

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is a former leader of the Nationals in the Senate.

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