Government willing to help Joyce blow up Coalition over net zero
As Joyce made good on his pledge to short-circuit the policy review process put in place by leader Sussan Ley and moved to abolish net zero emissions by 2050 immediately, Liberal senator Dave Sharma pushed back, saying the public did not care what the Coalition thought about net zero.
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