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<\/p>\nOpposition health spokeswoman Anne Ruston has held the line on the Coalition\u2019s ongoing review of its energy policy, refusing to engage with Pauline Hanson\u2019s Senate motion that sought to wedge opposition MPs on its 2050 net zero emissions target.<\/p>\n
Under the instruction of Opposition Leader Sussan Ley, most Coalition MPs abstained from Hanson\u2019s motion proposing the abandoning of the net zero target. The exceptions were moderate backbenchers Jane Hume and Andrew McLachlan, who voted against Hanson, and right-wingers Matt Canavan and Alex Antic, who supported One Nation.<\/p>\n
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Opposition health spokeswoman Anne Ruston.Credit: Renee Nowytarger<\/p>\n
Ruston said she would respect the \u201cbroad range of views\u201d in the opposition party room but would reserve judgment until the conclusion of the Coalition\u2019s energy review, commissioned following its election defeat in May.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe go through a really robust process around what our energy policy is going to be going forward, underpinned by making sure we\u2019ve got a stable energy grid and that we play our part in reducing emissions in a responsible and transparent way,\u201d said Ruston, who was in shadow cabinet when Hanson\u2019s motion was tabled.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe one thing that I\u2019m always doing is respect all of those views, I want to hear all the views of mine, my colleagues, and then we\u2019ll go through a respectful process, and come up with a united policy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hanson\u2019s motion was tabled on the same day that maverick Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce tabled legislation in the House of Representatives proposing to remove the net zero target.<\/p>\n
The Nationals appear ready to walk away from the emissions target, while Ley has remained coy about the Liberals\u2019 stance on the future target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opposition health spokeswoman Anne Ruston has held the line on the Coalition\u2019s ongoing review of its energy policy,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-28662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}