Opposition Leader Sussan Ley has bought a reprieve from a leadership coup by abandoning Australia’s legislated climate targets and pledging to keep coal plants online, mirroring Nationals policy as she fights to keep the Coalition together and convince voters the Coalition will deliver cheaper power bills.

After weeks of pressure from the right, Ley signed off on a plan to ditch the 2050 net zero target and scrap Labor’s suite of emissions reduction mechanisms, adopting the Morrison-era technology-not-taxes mantra to open up a new front in long-running Australia’s climate wars.

Opposition Leader Sussan Ley with her frontbench colleagues Anne Ruston, Dan Tehan and Jonno Duniam. Credit: Alex Ellinghausen

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