Steve Price: Australian Correspondent on Peter Dutton refusing to commit to 2030 emission reduction targets

Australia’s Opposition leader has set the election up to be a climate war. 

Peter Dutton has confirmed that should they be elected, they will not set a 2030 emissions reductions target. 

He claimed they were committed to net zero by 2050 but didn’t reveal any interim targets.  

Australian Correspondent Steve Price told Mike Hosking that Albanese has started to try rip apart Dutton’s climate change credentials, basically saying that he’s going to ruin the world and it’s all dreadful. 

He said that Dutton’s response was that Albanese can please all the people in Paris he likes, he’s going to take care of the people at home. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Right in Australia's the price morning to you.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
It's spring of sport. I watched a Netflix documentary on
the invasion of Wembley during the twenty twenty euro Cup Final,
which is well worth a look. Unbelievable.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
All right, well I shall look it up. This Dutton thing.
It's funny you should mention this because I won't bore
you witless. But we've got the whole what we call
the emissions trading scheme. We've had an argument over whether
agriculture is going to be part of it. If they
are going to be part of it, how do we
price methane yadda, YadA YadA, all part of Paris and
whether or not we're ever going to reach the target.
And I think you are right because you called it early.

(00:34):
Dutton's onto something with this because I think that the
chances of people believing we're going to get there is
diminishing by the day, isn't it one?

Speaker 2 (00:45):
And Peter Dutton has now set us up for a
climate war election, There's no doubt about that. He came
out at the weekend and then again yesterday. What he's
basically said is, look, you can stay signed up to
Paris you can talk about twenty fifty net zero BO
then okay, I know that my previous government signed this,
but as for twenty thirty, you can forget it. You're

(01:07):
not going to get there. So why do we keep
trying to bash the economy to get to reach a
target that we're never going to achieve, And so that
immediately triggered a second day in a Row media conference
from the Prime Minister Anthony Albanisi. He initially came out
to talk about what we'll speak about next is the
Chinese premier visiting, but he quickly turned on Dutton and

(01:29):
he has started to try and rip apart Dutton's climate
change credentials. He's basically saying that Dutton's going to ruin
the world and it's all dreadful. But Peter Dutton simply said, look,
you can please all the people you like in Paris,
that's fine, but I'm going to take care of people
at home now. If that's not a powerful election message. Basically,

(01:52):
when the Stratea is in a recession and people can't
afford to put food on the table and their power
bills through the roof, I don't know what is And
this is aimed interestingly at outer suburban seats that the
Coalition needs to win off labor which don't have great
margins that surround the cities of Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne.
It's a pretty basic political strategy. But if he can

(02:15):
pull it off, he's a genius. If he doesn't, and
Albanezi will fight all the way to the election, So
this blokes at climate criminal, then he's not going to win.
But you've now got a choice. Now you can back
potentially in nuclear down the road and reality in the meantime,
or you can go for lots of wind turbines and
solar panels and hope that you get some target that's

(02:37):
going to please somebody not here.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
See, he's got an increasingly good suite of it. And
so you got your nuclear, you've got your climate, you've
got the cock up of the government and all the
people have been let out of jail, and then you've
got the cost of living crisis going on. Between all
of that. You should be able to package up something
in a campaign that points to the government not being
very good.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
Yes, and you won't get an The Reserve bankmon cut
interest rates in Australia until next year. Most economists are
saying the first quarter of twenty twenty five. So if
Anthony Albanezi, as I'm increasingly guessings, decides to go to
an election, probably in early December, then there won't be
a rate cut. So you've got the thirteen interest rate

(03:19):
rises in the row as well as ammunition.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
A Chinese premier coming here going there. I mean, jeez,
what a contrast. And in terms of relationship given Balley
and wine and beef and Morrison and COVID and all
that sort of stuff.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
Yeah, let's look. I mean, Anthony Aberneze is very pleased
that the Chinese premier is coming. He's only here for
a few days. Interesting itinery he's going to Camber obviously
have to state dinner with Anthony Albert Easy at Parliament
House in the Great Hall while he's here. But the
other places he's going and not Melbourne, not Sydney. He's
going to Adelaide and going to Perth. Now as a

(03:56):
former Adelaidy and I can only presume he's going to
go there and talk to the state and about those pandits.
Did you know we had Chinese pandas in the Adelaide
zoo that have never been able to procreate. They're on
loan and there's been some great fear that the Chinese
want to come and get them back. I presume them
with Premier League going grade. Lady's going to say, no notice.

(04:17):
You can keep your panders, but we want your lobsters
because South Australia is a huge producer of lobsters, which
have been banned in China. So they open the lobsters up.
Then he goes to Perk. Why would a Chinese politician
go to Wa. Well, he's going to go and see
the trains and ships full of iron ore that keep
pouring out of Wa to go to the Chinese steel words.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
That's why exactly all right, now the fourteen yard jeez,
Melbourne such a classy place. So you've got the fourteen
year old on a crime spree after being bailed.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
He's one of the worst child offenders. Three hundred and
eighty eight charges have been struck out because of his
age because in under new laws in this state, you
can't be a criminal at fourteen. His latest spree listen
to their six burglaries in six hours, stolen woman's car
at night point, broke into a couple's home as their
baby slept this bloke or this teenager. He's escape from

(05:08):
residential care twenty three times since December, accused of being
among a group that smashed into booze and lotto shops
with a sledgehammer. Police stopped the stolen car, then found
a sledgehammer inside. The boy, who has extremely limited moral reasoning,
according to the court, as well, connected sort bail again

(05:30):
in April. Here's the zinger. The magistrate refused his most
recent bail. We'd heard the team, who is on a
refugee visa, had already committed three hundred and eighty eight
criminal charges since May.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
So what do you do with them? If you can't
charge them or will block them up, what do you
do with them? Obviously get them out.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
Hopefully you lock your door and he doesn't turn up
at your place, and that it's just ridiculous. He can't
be held criminally responsible. It's just crazy amazing.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
We'll see next week Steve Price out of Australia. Who
cares Mike about the Paris Agreement. It's non binding. Well,
a lot of people care about it, that's the point,
and that's why it's so political. A lot of people.
It's non binding. Of course, it's non binding. The EU
election results show people rebelling on unreasonable policy. That point
was made earlier on in the program, and I think
there's something in it. I think you can take a
broad based idea thrash it so hard in the interim

(06:22):
period it becomes clearly unrealistic. And we're talking about the
farmers and the emissions, and you're talking about the renewable
energy that doesn't work in the cold winter mornings and
all those sort of things. And as it becomes increasingly unrealistic,
you think, well, what's the point. How much damage do
we do with the economy. Dutton appears to have worked
that out and it seems to be milking it for
all it's worth.

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