Shorten says Australia should have net zero emissions by 2050

LABOR’S new climate change target is “a mad policy” that would lead to the reintroduction of a carbon tax, cabinet minister Christopher Pyne say.

Unveiling the opposition’s policy positions ahead of next week’s global climate conference, Bill Shorten on Friday will condemn the 2030 target the government is taking to Paris as “pathetic”. Addressing the national press club this week, the environment minister, Greg Hunt, said he expected zero net emissions would be possible “over the course of the century”.

‘A Shorten Labor government will provide for five days paid domestic and family violence leave in the National Employment Standards, ‘ Mr Shorten said on White Ribbon Day.

The target also included a reduction down to 45% of 2005 levels by 2030, when Australia is still presumably somewhat populated but dividing into military factions and barbaric city-states warring for coal, petrol and bullets across the wasteland.

Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry chief executive Kate Carnell said Labor’s 45 per cent pledge was “light on detail” and not backed by a credible plan that protects economic growth.

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Tuesday called for greater intelligence sharing in Southeast Asia to stop a Paris-style terror attack and ordered local law enforcement officials to test their readiness to handle a mass casualty attack.

Think-tank The Climate Institute said Labor’s target would cut emissions by 4.5 billion tonnes of Carbon dioxide by 2050.

“We will undertake this process mindful of the consequences for jobs, for regions and for any impacts on households”, Shorten will say.

Despite the government’s “accounting chicanery” Australia’s emissions are going up not down, Shorten says.

“Under Direct Action, it is taxpayers, not polluters, who pay to reduce emissions at a signifiant cost to the budget”.

Mr Porter pointed to girls in the research group who excused aggressive behaviour with “he’s probably just trying to get a bit of attention”.

Australian Prime Minster Malcolm Turnbull defends his investments in Cayman; stating where his money is invested is now out of his control.