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It didn’t take long for the climate exemption disease to spread rapidly through politics.
Nationals MPs now want agriculture, mining and regional manufacturing carved out of the mythical 2050 target. The mining lobby still mired in climate denial wants emissions-intensive mining protected. Liberal MP Russell Broadbent wants steel production one of Australia’s most cosseted industries, responsible for inflicting billions in unnecessary costs on the Australian construction industry through its predatory use of the anti-dumping rort exempted as well.
We’ve seen all this before, when Kevin Rudd unveiled his Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme and then watered it down, first to reflect the financial crisis, then in the face of relentless lobbying by emissions intensive industries.