Let's end Australia's climate and energy warfare, Albanese tells Morrison
by Katharine Murphy Political editor from on (#54Y94)
Labor leader sets out policy pivot in challenge to PM to display genuine bipartisanship
Anthony Albanese has dumped Labor's former backing of Malcolm Turnbull's national energy guarantee and opened the door for taxpayer support for carbon capture and storage technologies, in a major overture to Scott Morrison to reach bipartisan agreement on energy policy.
The Labor leader will use a speech to the National Press Club on Wednesday to set out his guiding principles for an agreement to end more than a decade of political warfare on climate and energy policy.
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