Barnaby Joyce has labelled the estimated cost of net zero “utterly untenable”, further undermining the Coalition’s commitment ahead of a motion at the Nationals conference to abolish its policy of reaching net zero by 2050.
In a speech before question time on Thursday, Joyce, a member of the shadow cabinet, encouraged debate on the motion put by his federal electorate council in New England and likened the estimated $7-$9tn cost of net zero to the Marshall plan after the second world war.
