{"id":902163,"date":"2026-09-23T05:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T05:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/902163\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T05:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T05:52:12","slug":"australia-news-live-coalition-unveils-plan-to-dismantle-net-zero-goals-1-million-reward-for-gus-lamont-information-liberals-deny-discussing-supply-with-one-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/902163\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia news LIVE: Coalition unveils plan to dismantle net zero goals; $1 million reward for Gus Lamont information; Liberals deny discussing supply with One Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sticking with the Coalition\u2019s Dan Tehan unveiling the Coalition\u2019s new energy priorities, he was also asked if this amounts to his party \u201cabandoning green\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, what we\u2019re saying is we will handle emissions reduction separately, and will have a separate policy,\u201d Tehan said. He said he couldn\u2019t say when that emissions policy would be unveiled.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s happened is we\u2019ve tried to drive emission reduction and our climate goals though our energy system, and we\u2019re destroying our energy system in the process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Coalition\u2019s plan announced today involves removing the \u201cSafeguard Mechanism\u201d, the nation\u2019s principal policy for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the country\u2019s largest industrial facilities. The Coalition claims this has driven jobs offshore.<\/p>\n<p>Asked what the opposition would do to make sure emissions would not spike in response to their policy, Tehan said the government would leave that to the polluters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got a lot of good corporate citizens in Australia wanting to reduce emissions. Let them set their targets, let them set their goals, and let them go about achieving it. We will provide them with a voluntary market in which they will be able to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sticking with the Coalition\u2019s Dan Tehan unveiling the Coalition\u2019s new energy priorities, he was also asked if this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":902164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-902163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902163","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=902163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}