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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
World
Adam Morton

A climate election? The Coalition wants to take Australia backwards, while Labor is standing still

The Coalition’s costings reveal plans to ignore advice that Australian nature is in poor and deteriorating health and strip back already limited funding for environment programs, writes Adam Morton
The Coalition’s costings reveal plans to ignore advice that Australian nature is in poor and deteriorating health and strip back already limited funding for environment programs, writes Adam Morton. Photograph: AAP

If further confirmation was needed that the Peter Dutton-led Coalition would take Australia aggressively backwards on dealing with the climate crisis, his final election costings released on Thursday tell the story in black and white.

The Liberal and National parties plan to gut programs designed to cut emissions and help create green industries to give the country an industrial future as demand for fossil fuels falls. They also plan to ignore advice that Australian nature is in poor and deteriorating health and strip back already limited funding for environment programs.

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