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Liberals shock with bombshell announcement - only to backflip hours later: 'It's time to scrap Net Zero and Save Australia!'
Liberals shock with bombshell announcement - only to backflip hours later: 'It's time to scrap Net Zero and Save Australia!'

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time4 days ago

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Liberals shock with bombshell announcement - only to backflip hours later: 'It's time to scrap Net Zero and Save Australia!'

The governing body of the South Australian Liberal Party adopted a policy of abandoning net zero - only for the party's leader to walk back the move hours later. Leaked documents showed that at a meeting of the state council on Saturday party members debated whether to drop the emissions reduction target. 'That the State Council calls upon the Federal Parliamentary Liberal Party, if achievable, to rescind their policy of Net Zero by 2050,' the motion for debate stated. The policy was reportedly agreed at the meeting, with outspoken Liberal Senator Alex Antic claiming it as a victory. 'Today the governing body of the South Australian Liberal Party voted to call upon the Federal Parliamentary Liberal Party to rescind their policy of Net Zero by 2050,' he posted on X alongside the words 'net zero' with a red cross through them. 'It's time to scrap Net Zero and Save Australia!' But hours later, SA Liberal Leader Vincent Tarzia walked back the claims, telling reporters that 'none of these policy discussions bind any of the parliamentary wings of the party'. Despite the party leader pouring cold water on it, Senator Antic continued to gloat. On Monday, he shared a video of US President Donald Trump at one of his rallies rambling about how he was 'going to win so much you may even get tired of winning'. 'President Trump when asked about the South Australian Liberal Party membership rejecting Net Zero on the weekend (Haters are going to say this is fake!),' was Antic's accompanying caption. SA Labor frontbencher Tom Koutsantonis claimed that the 'Alex Antic takeover of the SA Liberals is now complete'. 'While ordinary South Australians are worried about the cost of living and ensuring their kids have a good job and a good home, the South Australian Liberals are obsessing over the culture wars,' he said. 'The SA Liberals are now the most extreme and shambolic political operation in the country. 'They are not a party fit for government. They are a party of division.' In March, 200,000 homes and businesses around the Yorke Peninsula were plunged into darkness in South Australia following a power outage. Other items on the agenda at Saturday's meeting concerned changes to school education and rescinding the state's 'disastrous' voice to parliament. The motion claimed it had 'made no progress Indigenous Australians and seeks to divide us by race, and to divert savings made by abolishing the Voice to frontline services for indigenous communities'.

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