Liberal MPs did not stand in Abbott's way on renewables target, Greg Hunt says

Health minister responds to Abbott's hint that his party kept him from scrapping the RET, saying 33,000GwH was the minimum the Senate would accept

Tony Abbott wasn't kept from reducing the renewable energy target by his colleagues while he was leader, one of his former ministers has claimed, despite the former prime minister appearing to point the finger at his own party.

Abbott reignited the Coalition's energy debate last week, by going on the attack against any further move by the Turnbull government towards renewables, threatening to cross the floor if it headed towards the "unconscionable" direction of encouraging further investment in the renewable market.