12 Jun 2024

Australia: Opposition's climate confusion

From Nine To Noon, 9:45 am on 12 June 2024
A bushfire, believed to have been sparked by a lightning strike that has ravaged an area of over 2,000 hectares in northern New South Wales state, burns in Port Macquarie on November 2, 2019. The bushfires raging across Australia have had a devastating impact on the country's unique flora and fauna, with some estimates putting the death toll at nearly half a billion animals in one state alone, and experts believe it could take decades for wildlife to recover. (Photo by SAEED KHAN / AFP)

Photo: Saeed Khan / AFP

Australia correspondent Bernard Keane joins Kathryn to talk about the confusion over where the Opposition stands on the country's climate change policies and Australia has drawn a line under a controversial ministerial direction affecting deportees with criminal convictions, something that came out of pressure from New Zealand.

Bernard Keane is political editor for Crikey.com