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Greg Brown is The Australian’s chief political reporter. He was previously Canberra bureau chief and before that spent five years covering federal politics for The Australian, where he built a reputation as a newsbreaker consistently setting the national agenda.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - November 13, 2025: Leader of the Opposition Sussan Ley, Dan Tehan MP, Senator Anne Ruston and Senator Jonathon Duniam hold a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Ley lays battlelines for climate war with net zero axing

Sussan Ley has declared war with Labor over electricity prices by following the Nationals in dumping net zero, but Liberal MPs warn her leadership would face ongoing scrutiny.

Politics NowNation

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - November 13, 2025: Leader of the Opposition Sussan Ley holds a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Liberals prioritise affordable energy as party dumps net zero

Sussan Ley says the Liberals will not set any ‘long-term targets’ but that net zero is a ‘welcome outcome’, adding a future Coalition government would roll back Labor’s 2030 and 2050 targets | WATCH: Policy explained

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COALITION IN CHAOSPolitics

Sussan Let, left, arrives the party room meeting in Canberra on Wednesday; conservative Liberals arrive in a bloc, right. Picture: Martin Ollman/NewsWire

Liberals prepare to dump net zero after mammoth partyroom meeting

The party is expected to back staying in the Paris agreement without a formal ambition to reach net zero at any stage, with moderate MPs aiming to use the Paris element to claim the Coalition retains a net zero objective.

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Liberal leader Sussan Ley and Opposition energy spokesman Dan Tehan on Wednesday. Picture: Martin Ollman / NewsWire

Marathon Liberal meeting over with net zero on the outer

Shadow cabinet to meet on Thursday after nearly two-thirds of Liberal MPs spoke out against net zero with opposition energy spokesman Dan Tehan later stating that emissions reduction must be balanced by energy affordability and reliabilty.

Greg Brown and Jack Quail

Liberals meetPolitics

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - November 11, 2025: Leader of the Opposition Sussan Ley during the 2025 Remembrance Day National Ceremony at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Net zero showdown ultimate test for Ley’s leadership

Conservative powerbrokers are claiming Sussan Ley’s only chance of holding onto the top job is dumping any ambition to a carbon-neutral future.

Split dangerPolitics

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - November 7, 2025: Leader of the Opposition Sussan Ley holds a doorstop press conference after attending a Liberal Network Event at the Hyatt Hotel in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Dumping net zero has partyroom support: Lib MPs

A dramatic shift in Liberal Party sentiment has left the party’s net zero policy hanging by a thread, with several frontbenchers considering resignation if the policy is abandoned.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - August 18, 2025: Alliance of Industry Associations including, BCA Chief Executive Bran Black, ACCI Chief Executive Officer Andrew McKellar, Innes Willox, CEO, Australian Industry GroupÃÂ and Matthew Addison, Chair of theÃ¢â¬Â¯Council of Small Business Organisations Australia (COSBOA) hold a press conference ahead of the Economic Reform RoundtableÃÂ at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Power rebates to go as business reels

Labor is unlikely to extend electricity rebates past December, as a major survey shows nearly a third of small business owners are worried they may close within the next year.

EXCLUSIVEPolitics

Andrew Bragg, Opposition Leader Sussan Ley, and Tony Pasin.

Moderate Libs push ‘Australian way’ to save net zero

Moderate Liberals have launched an eleventh-hour bid to save the party’s net-zero commitment by focusing on pragmatism, technology and gas as conservative MPs warn of ‘Armageddon’.

Politics NowNation

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 03: Senator Andrew Bragg speaks to the media at Parliament House on November 03, 2025 in Canberra, Australia. Australia's parliament convened for sittings as a number of pressing issues come to the fore, from inflation and cost of living domestically to Australia's relationship with its allies in the region and beyond internationally. (Photo by Hilary Wardhaugh/Getty Images)

Bragg threatens to quit over Coalition’s net zero stance

Leading moderate Andrew Bragg has warned he would resign from the frontbench if the Coalition abandoned its net zero commitment or withdrew from the Paris Agreement, stating such a move would align Australia with ‘baddies’ like Iran and Syria.

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Emissions ‘aspiration’Nation

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Liberals’ vague aim to exit death spiral over net zero

Liberal MPs have exposed deep divisions over dumping the party’s net-zero target as a senior senator publicly declares Opposition Leader Sussan Ley is ‘losing support’.

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