00:00Driving climate action in choppy global waters.
00:07The UN's climate chief urges Australia to chart an ambitious course.
00:12Uncheck climate change is an economic wrecking ball.
00:15Don't settle for what's easy.
00:19Bog standard is beneath you.
00:22Go for what's smart by going big.
00:25Within months the federal government will unveil Australia's 2035 emissions reduction target.
00:31A key climate advisor talking up the opportunities it presents.
00:36Shine baby shine or store baby store should carry an Australian trademark
00:41and be hollered from our rooftops perhaps in an Aussie accent.
00:45As a group of nationals and a lone liberal speak out about what they see as the costs.
00:51They want to put 260 metre towers, they want to litter the countryside with them.
00:55And this is dividing the community.
00:58Barnaby Joyce turning words into actions, tabling a bill to dump Australia's climate targets
01:04and with it, the renewable rollout.
01:07And we have got to stop. And there's got to be an epiphany. And it cannot wait.
01:13Not even for an internal review that's currently underway.
01:17David Littleproud bristling at suggestions these rogue backbenchers are challenging his authority.
01:23I mean that's an absurd observation.
01:25There's no chance this bill will pass, but it demonstrates the difficulty the coalition will face
01:30finding any kind of consensus on climate and energy policy.
01:34The Prime Minister faces internal pressures of his own, with France's decision to recognise
01:40Palestinian statehood this year, adding momentum to calls within Labor for Australia to follow.
01:47Ed Husic says the time has come for Australia to act.
01:50There is deep concern across the caucus about this.
01:54The Prime Minister's well aware.
01:56And Australia will make that decision as a sovereign state.
01:59We obviously are in discussions with other countries as well going forward.
02:05He's open to shifting Australia's position, but not without key allies.
