What we learned, Sunday 16 November
We will wrap up the live blog here for the evening. This is what made the news:
The Coalition announced its emissions policy after dumping net zero last week, with a focus on affordability and on new and emerging technologies to keep emissions down.
The prime minister, Anthony Albanese called the Coalition a squabbling ‘rabble and clown show’ before the announcement. Nationals leader David Littleproud said the government had been reduced to name calling, and was out of touch.
Penny Wong said the Liberal party is “overrun by the fringes” and that its approach to environmental policy would lead to higher energy prices.
Conservative Liberal senator Jonathon Duniam said he supports Sussan Ley’s leadership and doesn’t expect a challenge against her in the wake of the net zero decision.
The long-awaited Metro tunnel will open on 30 November, the Victorian premier, Jacinta Allan announced with Albanese.
Kmart and Target have issued a recall notice for four coloured sand products that they say are linked to asbestos contamination.
Daniel Mulino, the man charged with rolling out a new measure to make social media platforms pay for news content they take from Australian publishers says Meta, Google and TikTok will be covered by the rules.
A demolition derby car lost control and ploughed into a grandstand, injuring 13 rural motoring enthusiasts in Walcha in NSW.
Until next time, enjoy your evening.
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Ley foreshadows immigration as next big Coalition target, says numbers are ‘far too high’
At the start of the press conference on Coalition emissions policy, the Liberal leader, Sussan Ley, said “another priority” was migration. Setting it up, as has been widely expected, as the next battlefront against the government.
We’ve been working very closely on migration policy in the last six months. This work has been done by Paul Scarr and more recently Jonno Duniam has joined as the home affairs shadow minister. And in the coming weeks, we will release a migration policy.
The broad principles of such a policy that demonstrates what I have said from the get-go, which is that this country’s migration numbers are far too high and this needs to be addressed as a priority.
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