Liberal MP Bridget Archer ‘open-minded’ on Labor’s push to overhaul climate safeguard mechanism

Liberal MP Bridget Archer said politicians should be able to ‘work constructively across the parliament’ when asked about climate safeguard mechanism. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

The Liberal MP Bridget Archer says she has an open mind on supporting the Albanese government’s planned overhaul of the safeguard mechanism if Labor can satisfy her concerns that a stronger climate policy won’t see heavy industry quit the country.

“I’m open-minded in relation to it,” Archer told Guardian Australia on Wednesday. “Of course I can see what the government is trying to do.”