Just when you thought the Coalition couldn’t descend into any further chaos, they’ve somehow phoenixed from the ashes only to burst into flames once more. The spark behind the blaze? One Nation leader Pauline Hanson.
Hanson is making moves to drive the wedge even further between the centre and right flanks of the party.
After the Coalition lost brutally to Labor at the last election, and when we say brutally we mean like one of the worst losses in history, the party has found itself facing an identity crisis.
Leader Sussan Ley has been trying to bring the party closer to the centre and away from Dutton’s Trump-like steer towards the right. However this hasn’t been easy and Pauline Hanson has seen an opportunity to capitalise on the tension brewing within the party.
On Monday, she put forward a vote in the Senate calling on the government to end its net zero policies, and said that any Coalition Senator who doesn’t vote on the motion should be labelled a “coward”.
Ley told her senators to abstain from taking part in the vote, to which most obeyed. Except for moderates Jane Hume and Andrew McLachlan who voted against Hanson and Matt Canavan and Alex Antic who broke rank and voted in support of the scrap.
Hanson was called out for putting this forward by Labor’s youngest new senator for South Australia, 21-year-old Charlotte Walker who said the motion on net zero “indicates a severe lack of knowledge and a complete disregard for the future of our generation, the future of our country”.
This adds to the climate wars that continue to rage on within the Coalition as Barnaby Joyce has moved a private member’s bill to repeal net zero emissions too. The Australian Financial Review noted that Labor will be happy for the party to debate this for as long as they want in order to shine a light on the in-fighting occurring between factions of the party.
Ley has tried to brush off this renewed push by the Nationals to dump the commitment by 2050, and The Australian reports that Ley believes the Liberals and Nationals will arrive at the same position on net zero. But from where we are sitting, the road to get there looks pretty damn bumpy.
This has coincided with the United Nation’s Climate Chief urging Australia to be more ambitious in cutting carbon emissions for our 2035 target.
Isn’t it funny that the week one of the world’s top climate diplomats calls us out to do more on climate action, the Coalition pushes harder for us to do less?
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