The attack on Australia’s net zero target is reckless and gutless. Voters expect more than ‘intergenerational bastardry’

‘The first sitting of the 48th parliament typified time-wasting point-scoring politics with former Nationals leaders Barnaby Joyce and Michael McCormack teaming up to push for the repeal of the legislated net zero target.’ Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

“Renewables continue to prove themselves as the most cost-competitive source of new electricity generation,” says a new report by the International Renewable Energy Agency.

It has caused the UN secretary general, António Guterres, to declare: “We are on the cusp of a new era. Fossil fuels are running out of road. The sun is rising on a clean energy age.”