Tony Abbott tells party he was misled by advisers over Paris climate deal

Tony Abbott has claimed he was misled by bureaucrats before he signed Australia up to the Paris international climate agreement in 2015 during another sortie by government conservatives against the national energy guarantee.

Tony Abbott - "mislead" about Paris climate agreement.

Opponents of the government’s energy policy used the opportunity of the regular Coalition party room to resume their attacks on the policy that goes to a critical meeting of state and territory energy ministers in early August.

With these two parliamentary sitting weeks the last remaining window for internal opponents to try and blow the policy off course, Abbott raised objections, as did Eric Abetz, Andrew Gee, Ian MacDonald and the voluble Liberal Craig Kelly.

Read Katharine Murphy’s story from The Guardian - “Tony Abbott tells party he was misled by advisers over Paris climate deal.”