Shadow climate and energy minister Ted O’Brien releases statement after ambiguous stance at debate with Labor’s Chris Bowen
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Shadow climate and energy minister Ted O’Brien has confirmed the Coalition is committed to the Paris agreement, just hours he refused to rule out withdrawing Australia from the accord if Peter Dutton won the election.
In another case of Coalition mixed-messaging on policy, O’Brien left the door ajar to abandoning Paris if it was in the “national interest” during a debate with the climate change and energy minister, Chris Bowen, in Canberra on Thursday.
