ABC under fire after journalist goes on heated rant labelling the Coalition’s bid to axe net zero targets ‘nonsensical’

The ABC has been accused of dressing opinion-based commentary from a political correspondent as hard news, after an ABC podcast and Instagram reel saw a political commentator call a Sussan Ley decision "nonsensical."

Radio National breakfast political correspondent Melissa Clarke joined Party Room podcast host Patricia Karvelas to “break down” Sussan Ley’s scrapping of her party’s net zero policy.

She argued the decision to remain in the Paris agreement while scrapping firm net zero targets was “nonsensical”.

“Can I just describe where the Liberal Party has landed here? Instead of making a decision on emissions reduction and energy policy, the Liberals have agreed to every request that has come through the Liberal Party partyroom to some degree, have landed with a grab bag of promises,