Article 4YVFJ Anthony Albanese says public wants 'practical' action on climate change – as it happened

Anthony Albanese says public wants 'practical' action on climate change – as it happened

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Amy Remeikis
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Michael McCormack sees off Nationals leadership challenge from Barnaby Joyce, while Adam Bandt is elected Greens leader. This blog is now closed

6.12am GMT

Tomorrow is the first official day of parliamentary proceedings - we'll have question time and legislation to discuss, and we'll probably even manage to get through the day without a leadership spill, so that should be great.

Parliament starts at 9, but the blog will be up and running before that, so I do hope you'll tune in. I'll need the company and the laughs.

5.51am GMT

Tim Wilson is now getting upset about not being able to give the government talking points on what it is doing on reducing emissions. He is pulled up by Patricia Karvelas for giving "a list" saying her viewers deserve more, but Wilson says that means he won't be able to answer the question.

He then moves on to the Kyoto credits, as Karvelas request:

I don't think we need to use our Kyoto carryover credits. The whole argument about Kyoto carryover credits is frankly absurd.

Carryover credits were a condition the Labor party put in, in terms of the negotiations.

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