Murray Olds: Australian correspondent on Opposition leader Peter Dutton backing away from 2030 emissions target

Over in Australia, Opposition leader Peter Dutton has confirmed the coalition will not set a 2030 emissions reduction target before the next election.

Dutton claimed the coalition was committed to net zero by 2050, but refused to reveal any interim targets.

Australian correspondent Murray Olds says both parties have underestimated the challenges of implementing renewable energy. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Murray. Old Ossie corresponds with us now, how mus good
afternoon heaven. So the twenty thirty emissions target keeps on
rolling on.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Oh boy boy, the climate wars are on again. The
opposition wants to pick a fight on climate. The twenty
talk over here about an early election round. One of
the fight was let's go nuclear. Well, Australian scientists, the
top organization over here, the CSIO said you're getting too expensive,
too far away. Now, Peter Dutton says a coalition government

(00:28):
will walk away from the twenty thirty Paris Agreement. That's
the target to cut emissions by forty three percent by
the end of this decade over two thousand and five levels,
thanks to having eighty two percent of the energy that
Australia needs supplied by renewables. Now, the Opposition says that's unattainable.
Experts say it's going to be a big ask. The

(00:50):
government says, listen, trust as we're going well now both
sides Apparently you've underestimated the challenge of getting enough renewables
into this system. Certainly the National Transmission Network, for example
GI it's going to be expensive to upgrade that. But
few are saying over if anybody outside the coalition, yes,
let's blow up Paris and have Australia joint Iran, Libya

(01:13):
and Yemen as the world's only countries not to ratify
that agreement. Labor says, bring it on. We'll fight you
on this at the next election.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Buzz. Do we believe the Victorian landlords who are threatening
to sell up?

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Oh diddams. I mean this is also energy related. It's
an interesting story this because the Victorian government wants to
be completely zero emissions emissions, you know, by twenty forty seven,
so it's only twenty years away, well just over twenty
years away. Now, the Victorian government's come up with an

(01:45):
idea proposed changes to laws around energy efficiency in rental properties.
The Victorian government basically wants net zero omissions, I said
in twenty years. So okay, landlords, we're going to bring
in new standards, minimum standards, for example, heather every rental
property they have to have sealing insulation that have to
be twenty first century, shower heads, new electric hot water systems,

(02:06):
new cooling systems and heating systems as well. Now landlords
are furious that they're angry about the cost. They say,
hang on the tenants might save on their energy bills.
But I'll tell you who's going to be putting the
rent up. We are because we can't afford it. Just
another blow for landlords, is there? Many are saying, well,
it's going to sell up and get out and can't
see that happening really, And appliances won't have to be

(02:27):
updated until their current life is over. But some landlords
are out there on forums saying the sky is going
to fall in and he has won. He said, oh soon,
tenants are going to have better homes than us, and
we're the owners of the investment property.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
Please must I see everybody at Bonds has got the sack,
haven't they?

Speaker 2 (02:46):
They have? And I knew we were talking about this
today and I went looking at the etymology of BONDSA.
It's an Australian slang expression from the start of the
twentieth century for something that was excellent, pleasing, very good.
Sadly none of these apply any more to Australia's most
recent airline. Bonds has crashed and burned. They called the
administrators in two months ago. They've been waiting on you.

(03:08):
All the staff have been waiting with no pay for
the last two months, hoping against hope the administrators would
be able to sell the airline. That's not happened. Now
they've all been dismissed today. Yes they're going to get
their entitlements, we understand, but no potential buyers. And now
the suggestion this afternoon that maybe, just maybe the airline
was trading while insolvent, and that is a big no no,

(03:30):
as you know very much too.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
Right. Hey, thank you very much, Mars, really enjoyed talking
to you. That's Maurrao Old's Australia correspondent.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
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