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The Briefing … Tensions rise over NEG policy
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Government MPs have reserved the right to cross the floor to sink the National Energy Guarantee, despite prime minister Malcolm Turnbull announcing changes to the flagship policy to shore up backbench support.
On Friday Turnbull abandoned plans to ratify emissions reduction targets outlined in the 2016 Paris climate agreement, instead allowing targets to be set by regulation. Conservative backbenchers, including former prime minister Tony Abbott and several Nationals MPs, refused to back the changes, with Nationals MP George Christensen saying the revised policy “certainly hasn’t allayed my concerns …”
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