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‘Vacuous moral purity’: union boss slams Greens’ approach to gas

Jacob Greber

The Greens are “pound for pound” Australia’s biggest climate wreckers, Australian Workers’ Union boss Dan Walton has said as he defended gas as the primary bridge to a renewables future and vital to keeping local manufacturing alive.

A day after the Greens party room said it would not back Labor’s planned heavy emissions reduction policy – the so-called safeguard mechanism – unless it included an overt ban on new fossil fuel projects, Mr Walton said the scheme was vital to guiding the country to a sustainable pathway for net zero by 2050.

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Jacob Greber was The Australian Financial Review’s senior political correspondent. Connect with Jacob on Twitter. Email Jacob at jgreber@afr.com

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