Overview
- Sussan Ley formally announced the Liberal Party has abandoned Australia’s legislated net zero by 2050 target.
- Climate spokesman Dan Tehan detailed plans to scrap fuel-efficiency standards and electric-vehicle tax breaks, abolish the safeguard mechanism, ditch the $20 billion Rewiring the Nation fund, and repeal the 82% renewables-by-2030 goal.
- The opposition says it will remain in the Paris Agreement and guarantee year‑on‑year reductions in national emissions if elected.
- Exclusive 9News Perth footage shows the ABF vessel Ocean Shield leaving Broome carrying four de‑identified fishing boats bound for the north, described as the first visual evidence of a reported boat-transfer program.
- Reporters say the boats are taken to Darwin and towed behind ABF vessels before being passed to users of unseaworthy craft and turned back from Australian waters, as Ley avoids an immediate leadership challenge and says the policy outcome was what she wanted.