Australia’s progress on tackling the climate emergency is at risk of being reversed by “the alternative prime minister from the alt right”, Peter Dutton, who is leading a Coalition containing a “cabal of climate denial”, the climate and energy minister, Chris Bowen, says.
In a speech on Tuesday morning in Sydney to the annual Australian Clean Energy Summit, Bowen mixed fresh details of the Albanese government’s carbon emissions plans with criticism of the opposition’s stance on climate action.