We’ve spent a year waiting for this 2050 plan and it’s actually just the status quo with some new speculative graphs | Katharine Murphy

To change course radically, the Coalition would have to admit that for a decade it traded the national interest for a handful of regional Queensland seats

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There's not a lot of good news, so for the sake of all our sanity, let's start with the good news. The Morrison government has adopted a mid-century target of net zero emissions by 2050.

Now before anyone starts yelling - it is true that Australia already adopted that objective, more or less, when we signed the Paris agreement five years ago.