00:01The push to transform Australia's energy mix is having a transformational effect on coalition policy.
00:08We've committed by 2050 to be zero emissions which are consistent with the Paris Agreement.
00:13We do think that there is change that's needed as far as where our energy plan is headed.
00:18The New South Wales Nationals are giving in principle support to their Federal colleagues plan
00:22which backs nuclear energy and explicitly abandoned support for net zero.
00:27But talk of that target is something their leader wants to avoid.
00:30Everyone keeps talking about two words that no one understands what they actually mean.
00:35Two words that you don't want to say though.
00:37And I'm not going to say them. There you go. Because they mean nothing.
00:41In trying to give the coalition space to discuss their differences opponents are filling the void.
00:46They're abandoning net zero. What an absolute fool.
00:51Honestly no one knows week by week what they believe in.
00:54The renewable energy industry says even talk of scrapping targets could affect investment.
00:59Coal fired power stations are coming offline because they're old and ready for retirement.
01:03That electricity needs to be replaced with something.
01:06And solar, wind, batteries and a little bit of gas is by far and away the cheapest option available to us.
01:13But the Nationals say the pace and planning of green energy projects has been botched under Labor.
01:18The communities are literally being torn apart.
01:21We're not a group of hillbillies that's saying we don't believe that we need to do work.
01:26We believe in climate change.
01:27Even still the Nationals position could put Mark Speakman and the Liberals in a tight spot.
01:32He says he won't back away from the net zero target and he's warned that voters could turn on his party if he does.
01:38And having already lost ground to one climate focused teal, a backtrack on net zero could put even more state liberal territory at risk.
01:50phrases to each state level which will put a disadvantages with carbon �zen.
01:52To be catching up and above all housing available to us.
01:54The Nationals respect can be powerful, a
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