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Opposition Leader Sussan Ley has played down tensions within the Coalition over its position on net zero, after a reportedly chaotic partyroom meeting where a number of MPs argued over the Coalition’s climate position.<\/p>\n

It follows the Liberal National Party’s resolution at a Queensland conference over the weekend to formally dump a target to reach net zero by 2050.<\/p>\n

Ms Ley said partyroom discussions were “collegiate” and she invited contributions from her colleagues.<\/p>\n

“I am not going to address it directly for the simple reason that I never talk about private conversations on a range of matters,” she said.<\/p>\n

She said people were “pleased” at the opportunity for debate at this morning’s meeting.<\/p>\n

The ABC understands there was a discussion at the meeting over its energy review process, and whether the party should spell out its position before a comprehensive review led by Shadow Energy Minister Dan Tehan has been completed.<\/p>\n

Ms Ley has pointed to two principles Mr Tehan is working with: lowering energy costs and reducing emissions.<\/p>\n

“[It is] important, because it is bringing together experts, it’s bringing together the party room,” Ms Ley said.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, several Nationals have openly advocated against the commitment to reach net zero by 2050.<\/p>\n

Nationals MPs Barnaby Joyce and Michael McCormack have spearheaded a debate in the lower house to repeal climate-related laws<\/a>, which Labor has allowed as it seeks to maximise the Coalition’s pain over internal divisions.<\/p>\n

\"Barnaby<\/p>\n

Barnaby Joyce introduced a private member’s bill to scrap several climate-related laws in the last sitting fortnight. (ABC News: Nick Haggarty)<\/p>\n

Liberal MP Simon Kennedy told Sky News the government was not going to meet its 2030 target, “and they’re about to legislate their 2035 targets”.<\/p>\n

“We do need real policy, we need a policy position on that. We know it’s going to be between we think 65 to 75 per cent, so we should be starting to think about a policy,” Mr Kennedy said.<\/p>\n

“The domestic gas reserve we announced last election, we should reinstate that as a policy, we modelled that … that would give us something to talk about.”<\/p>\n

Liberal frontbencher Andrew Hastie said the commitment to reach net zero by 2050 undermined Australia’s sovereignty, security and competitiveness and he did not support it.<\/p>\n

But he said Ms Ley had been clear that the party should follow its process.<\/p>\n

“We’re going through a process to settle our energy policy and it’s right that backbenchers express their views,” Mr Hastie told ABC Afternoon Briefing.<\/p>\n

With the Coalition divided on its approach to climate change, Ms Ley was asked whether she expected to still be leading the party in three years’ time.<\/p>\n

“Absolutely I will,” Ms Ley responded.<\/p>\n

“I know my party room, and I know the party room that I lead.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opposition Leader Sussan Ley has played down tensions within the Coalition over its position on net zero, after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,68,27305,71036,10940,66975,44,2325],"class_list":["post-96700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-climate-change","tag-coalition","tag-energy-review","tag-liberal-party","tag-national-party","tag-news","tag-sussan-ley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96700","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=96700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}