Craig Kelly backs Abbott on renewable energy target and immigration

Liberal MP calls for RET to be frozen and immigration to be explicitly linked to issue of housing affordability

The chairman of the Turnbull government's backbench environment and energy committee has backed Tony Abbott's call to wind back the renewable energy target, and cut the immigration rate to boost housing affordability.

The Liberal MP Craig Kelly told Guardian Australia on Friday the RET needed to be frozen where it is at the moment, and the government needed to explicitly link the issues of immigration and housing affordability.