“If you are a leader of a political party you are leading a team of talented individuals”, Mr Turnbull said.
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Bill Shorten will take significantly steeper emissions cuts to the 2016 election than the Turnbull government, ensuring climate change policy will once again be a key battleground issue for voters.
Labor will commit to the goal of Australia achieving net zero emissions by 2050 and embrace the ambitious target of cutting emissions by 45% on 2005 levels by 2030.
“We don’t need to believe in gravity – we know it exists”, he says.
Yesterday, the Australian leader also called for greater intelligence sharing with the leaders of South-east Asian countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore.
“Malcolm Turnbull won the leadership vote in the party room, but Tony Abbott has won the climate policy debate in the Liberal party”, Shorten will say in an address to the Lowy Institute on Friday.
The government has said six attacks have been foiled on home soil over the past year, although several have not, including a police employee shot dead in Sydney last month by a 15-year-old reportedly shouting religious slogans.
“We will undertake this process mindful of the consequences for jobs, for regions and for any impacts on households”.
Malcolm Turnbull is set to deliver a speech outlining the extent of the terrorism threat and how his government is dealing with it.
‘So if people say we should have Australian military boots on the ground in Iraq, they overlook the fact that Iraq is a sovereign state and it determines what western or other forces, foreign forces, are active within its borders’.
Labor would support a pledge and review process every five years, to help Australia track its commitments and respond to worldwide action.
“He had the courage to tell the truth when he was a backbencher, with nothing to lose”.
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A Labor government would aim to slash carbon emissions by 45 per cent by 2030 and offset Australia’s CO2 pollution by the middle of the century.
