The Liberals’ new emissions policy is bursting with contradictions – and is unlikely to be what voters want | Tom McIlroy

Sussan Ley appears to have given up trying to meet voters where they are, instead allowing conservative MPs to dictate policy to keep her job - and keep the Coalition together

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Six months ago on Thursday, the new Liberal leader, Sussan Ley, stood in the opposition party room at Parliament House and promised the Coalition would meet voters where they are".

Six months on - and after another messy few weeks for the Liberals and Nationals - Ley was back in the same spot confirming the Liberals had dumped support for net zero emissions by 2050.