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FIRST-HOME buyers are continuing to lap up the Federal Governmentâs extended HomeBuilder Grant despite the recent $10,000 cutback to the scheme.
Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack made the revelation on Thursday while touring the site of a new housing development at Ripley.
He was accompanied by Senator Paul Scarr, who revealed applications for the grant had doubled since the three-month extension was announced last December.
Initially set to conclude December 31, the grant will now wind up March 31.
The original $25,000 payment for first home buyers was first was announced in June 2020 in a bid to help revive the struggling sector amid COVID-19.
Not just climate adaptation, but genuine transformation
The Australian government has been in the news this month for two seemingly contradictory policy responses to climate change. First, on 26 January, the Hon Sussan Ley, Minister for the Environment, attended the (first of its kind) Global Climate Adaptation Summit and committed Australia to join the global Call for Action on Raising Ambition for Climate Adaptation and Resilience, to developing a new National Climate Resilience and Adaptation Strategy, and pledged new climate finance of at least $1.5 billion over the next five years.
In apparent contrast to these new commitments, Australia’s recent update to its Nationally Determined Commitment (NDC) under the UNFCCC Paris Agreement made no increase to already mitigated ambition, sticking with the current paltry target of reducing emissions by 26 to 28 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030. A target that is shockingly unambitious. Doubling down on this lack of ambition,
No law to set target: Ministers stare down Natsâ complaint on carbon
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Federal ministers are planning to neutralise a backbench threat on climate change by making sure a new carbon target will not be mandated by law, avoiding a vote in Parliament that could rock the government.
The Morrison government is aiming to achieve the contentious target of net zero emissions by 2050 by pledging billions of dollars on energy projects without a mechanism that requires majority support from a divided backbench.
The Morrison government is quelling a push from the Nationalsâ backbench to avoid setting a net zero emissions target for 2050.