Opposition leader Sussan Ley to announce final position on net zero

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Returning now to the federal Liberal Party meeting in Canberra, where senior members are deciding their new position on net zero. Former New South Wales Liberal Treasurer and Climate Change Authority boss, Matt Kean says voters will punish political parties that don't support strong clear action on climate change.

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00:00As someone who has been a lifelong Liberal, it saddens me to no end that there are a number

00:08of Liberals who are no longer interested in building a stronger, better and more prosperous

00:13future for future generations of Australians. And that's what this issue is all about.

00:18How do we make our country stronger and hand our planet to our kids better than we found it? And

00:23if the Liberal Party is giving up on that, then they're giving up on the thing that has always

00:28made them the natural party of government in Australia and something that I was proud to be

00:33a part of for many years. But certainly political interests of some actors and vested interests,

00:40in my view, over the national interest. The Liberal Party has always been at its best

00:45when it's put the community interest and the country's interest first. That has been the case

00:51in the Howard government, in the Abbott government, in the Turnbull government and the Barry O'Farrell

00:58Mike Baird and Gladys Berejiklian governments that I was proud to serve in. That's when the Liberal

01:03Party is at its best, when we're arguing for a stronger and better future, not when we're looking

01:08to backslide.

01:09Mike Baird and Gladys Berejiklian governments that we're looking to backslide.

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