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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Environment
Graham Readfearn

Amid the rubble of election defeat, are claims of a dying net zero agenda credible?

Matt Canavan and Barnaby Joyce
LNP senator Matt Canavan and Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce have voiced opposition to climate goals, after the Coalition lost several seats to climate-focused candidates. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

The Coalition is picking through the entrails, scouring the wreckage and sifting through whatever other analogies we might have missed as it works out how it lost the election.

In postmortem interviews, the Liberals and Nationals are debating what they should do differently on the core issue of the climate crisis after losing a wave of seats to pro-climate Greens, independents and a Labor party with bolder climate targets.

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