Australia news live: Dural crime scene believed to be linked to Chris Baghsarian kidnapping, NSW police say; Angus Taylor vows to ‘rid system’ of net zero

Opposition leader signals his Liberals will abandon net zero commitment entirely. Follow updates live Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Net zero is still dead, if not more dead under Angus Taylor’s Liberal party. When Sussan Ley announced the party’s commitment to drop net zero in November, she kept the caveat that net zero would still be a welcome outcome if “we can get there with technology, with choice and with voluntary markets”. I think the starting point is to get that net zero ideology out of our system ... We have uranium, we have coal, we have gas, we do have renewables, of course, in people putting solar cells on their roofs at a rapid pace, it’s the mix that’s going to get us the solution. Continue reading...

By Martin Farrer