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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Environment
Adam Morton

Queensland’s pandering to climate deniers is making it even tougher for Australia to drive down emissions

Anthony Albanese and David Crisafulli
The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, and the Queensland premier, David Crisafulli, whose energy roadmap ‘means there will need to be a bigger drive in Canberra to cut pollution’. Photograph: Jono Searle/AAP

Meeting Australia’s emissions reduction targets is not going to be simple and the Queensland Liberal National government has gone out of its way to make it much harder.

Its energy roadmap, released on Friday, can’t really be interpreted as anything other than a transparently political document, designed to placate climate deniers that have a stranglehold on significant parts of the state’s governing party. You wouldn’t be heading down this path otherwise.

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