A Liberal Party veteran and former head of the federal government's green bank has unleashed on his party's "immoral" climate change policies, saying they "knowingly and willingly inflict damage on others”.
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| Liberal party veteran and former head of the federal government's green bank, Oliver Yates, has declared the government's climate policies to be "immoral". |
Ex-Macquarie banker Oliver Yates, chief executive of the government's $10 billion Clean Energy Finance Corporation until April this year, said far-right members had hijacked the party and that "reform from the outside" may be required – in the form of a rival party that better reflects core Liberal values.
His comments follow a stunt by Victorian Liberal senator Jane Hume at a party fundraiser last Thursday night, in which she presented a mock lump of brown coal to Treasurer Scott Morrison. Mr Yates stood up and loudly objected to the stunt before angrily leaving the $10,000-a-table event at Melbourne venue Glasshouse.
Mr Yates told Fairfax Media that climate change was "not a laughing matter" and the stunt was "flagrantly immoral".
Read Nicole Hasham’s story in today’s Melbourne Age - “Former Clean Energy finance chief Oliver Yates slams Turnbull government's 'immoral' climate policies.”
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