‘Fantasy': Coalition struggles on net zero policy as rest of world ‘abandons' it
'Net zero is just a fantasy, it's just not reality, and of course, you say that in Australia and you get dismissed,' Mr Sheridan told Sky News Australia.
'Global carbon emissions have gone up quite radically between 2020 and 2023.
'All centre-right parties around the English-speaking world have abandoned net zero by 2050 as a hard target.
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