Overview
- Opposition Leader Sussan Ley confirmed the Liberal Party has dumped the legislated 2050 net zero target while remaining in the Paris Agreement.
- Climate spokesman Dan Tehan said a Coalition government would guarantee year‑on‑year emissions reductions but repeal Labor measures including fuel‑efficiency standards, EV tax breaks, the safeguard mechanism, the $20 billion Rewiring the Nation fund and the 82% renewables‑by‑2030 target.
- Ley said the outcome was the one she wanted and she avoided an immediate leadership challenge after the policy shift.
- Exclusive 9News Perth footage shows the ABF’s 110‑metre Ocean Shield leaving Broome with four de‑identified fishing boats, described by reporters as the first visual evidence of the transfer program.
- Reporting says the boats are taken to Darwin and later towed behind ABF vessels before being handed to fishers or people smugglers using unseaworthy craft, a process that is drawing fresh political and public scrutiny.