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Opposition Leader Sussan explains the Liberals’ new stance on emissions reduction.

Sussan Ley showed up with a steely tone and strong message but forgot one group

With mounting talk of her terminal leadership, the Liberal leader has been looking for a lifeline. She grabbed one by siding with the net zero naysayers, but it may prove costly.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos

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Two words in Sussan Ley’s nonsensical net zero press conference might come back to haunt her

The Coalition’s abandonment of credible climate policy has far more to do with virtue-signalling than it does with climate science or economics.

  • Nick O'Malley
Opposition Leader Sussan Ley leaves the party room meeting alone.

Ley’s job on the line as Liberals reject net zero

Opposition Leader Sussan Ley is preparing to formally dump the Liberal Party’s pledge to reach net zero emissions, overriding warnings about losing support in cities where the party has been all but wiped out.

  • Paul Sakkal, Brittany Busch and Nick Newling
Opposition housing spokesperson, Senator Andrew Bragg.

Bragg will quit frontbench if Coalition walks away from net zero, Paris Agreement

Asked if he would quit the frontbench if the party ditched the policy and the Paris Agreement, the opposition housing spokesman said he would, but he doubted it could happen.

  • Nick Newling
Nationals leader David Littleproud and Opposition leader Sussan Ley take their seats for Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra on Thursday 6 November 2025.

Liberal MP angered over last-minute recall to Canberra to resolve net zero debate

Opposition Leader Sussan Ley will haul her MPs back to Canberra on Wednesday next week for a crunch meeting to land the energy policy.

  • Paul Sakkal
Opposition energy spokesman Dan Tehan.

Conservatives push to ditch ‘net zero’ term in Liberal party room debate

A Liberal party meeting on energy policy has spurred hopes the Coalition can unite on the contentious issue of net zero emissions, although deep divisions remain.

  • Mike Foley and Paul Sakkal
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Tehan faced a tight contest for the seat of Wannon in the May election.

Liberal campaign ads aired during election advertising blackout

The ads for Coalition frontbencher Dan Tehan were inadvertently aired by a regional broadcaster during a popular local racing carnival just before the election.

  • Brittany Busch
Climate 200-backed independent candidate for Wannon, Alex Dyson, has a strong ground game but faces an uphill battle to defeat the Liberals in the regional Victorian seat for the first time since the 1950s.

$27m war chest: The independents who raised the most money at the election

Candidates with the biggest financial backing failed to get elected at the May election as Climate 200 and individual donors poured a record $27 million into community independent campaigns.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos and Millie Muroi
Radioactive material is broken down at the Idaho National Laboratory, which was key to the development of modern reactors.

Nuclear battle to resume as Coalition doubles down on Dutton’s push

Opposition energy spokesman Dan Tehan has declared there is overwhelming support for nuclear energy in the Coalition despite its thumping election loss.

  • Mike Foley
Opposition Leader Sussan Ley and her energy spokesman Dan Tehan.

Ley seeks to keep Coalition, and her leadership, intact with net zero deal

Before a critical fortnight in the energy debate, expectations are growing in the Liberal Party that Sussan Ley will find a way through the latest Coalition climate war.

  • Paul Sakkal

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