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Opposition leader Sussan Ley takes her seat for Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra on Monday 25 August 2025. fedpol Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

Canavan leads group of five demanding Coalition debate scrapping net zero

Opposition Leader Sussan Ley has ordered an internal review of emissions targets, but the topic that almost split the Coalition is back on the agenda.

  • Paul Sakkal

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Australia’s renewable energy transition is the biggest driver of greenhouse emissions cuts.

As Coalition battles, government says it’s on track for climate cuts

Australia’s national greenhouse emissions fell 1.4 per cent in the year to March 2025 and are sitting at 28 per cent below 2005 levels.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Climate Change Authority chairman Matt Kean (left) and Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen.

Australians have their say on new climate targets as Coalition prepares for another brawl on net zero

A more ambitious 2035 emissions-reduction target gets support from a range of Australians, even from Coalition voters.

  • James Massola and Paul Sakkal
Author Natalie Kyriacou

Why did Barnaby want to give a fish herpes? This environmental expert can explain

From the environmental frontlines, this Aussie is turning heads with tales that are truly wild – Darwin and the bonobos, Costa Rica’s “pura vida”, and the role of “ejaculation helmets” in saving a parrot.

  • Peter FitzSimons

In the current climate, the Coalition looks cooked

After losing government in 2022, and then suffering further big losses at this year’s election, the Coalition cannot seem to grasp a very obvious problem.

  • Peter Hartcher

Allan is wrong about NGV protest - it is fair to highlight Israel links

Readers respond to Jacinta Allan’s criticism of protests at the NGV, Barnaby Joyce’s latest push, and Trump’s deals in Europe.

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One Nation leader Senator Pauline Hanson at the front of Parliament House in Canberra in late July.

Hanson tests Coalition resolve on net zero

Pauline Hanson wants to take advantage of Sussan Ley’s move to a more centrist style, describing herself as Australia’s answer to Nigel Farage, leader of the UK’s Reform.

  • Paul Sakkal

Why Barnaby’s war on net zero’s already sunk

Barnaby Joyce gave three reasons for dumping net zero climate change targets. They’re all wrong.

  • Nick O'Malley
Does Anthony Albanese (right) really want to follow Donald Trump’s lead on defence spending?

Pistol and Boo should have disguised themselves as (maybe mad) cows

Australia’s strict quarantine authorities famously booted out the movie star dogs. A few years later they are overturning a ban on US beef. We’re truly living in Trumpworld now.

  • Tony Wright
Joyce and Nationals leader David Littleproud during question time at Parliament House in February.

Nationals leader says net zero ‘impossible’ as party moves towards ditching goal

David Littleproud says achieving the 2050 goal is “tearing apart” regional communities “for an ideology that is not going to sustain an energy grid”.

  • Paul Sakkal and Brittany Busch