22 July, 2015

Shorten to announce bold renewable energy target


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pposition Leader Bill Shorten is set to unveil a bold climate policy goal requiring half of Australia's large-scale energy production to be generated using renewable sources within 15 years.

Bill Shorten to announce bold renewable
energy target at Labor conference.
Fairfax Media has learnt that despite Labor's humiliating 2013 election defeat caused in part by voter contempt for its carbon tax, Mr Shorten will use this weekend's ALP national conference in Melbourne to announce the even more ambitious goal, dramatically beefing up Labor's renewable energy target.

The policy shift is designed to recover green support, sharpen the contrast with Prime Minister Tony Abbott over climate change and make global warming the defining battleground of the next federal election

Read the Sydney Morning Herald story - “Bill Shorten to unveil 50% renewable energy target at Labor conference”.

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