Labor landslide an endorsement of renewables, wake-up call for the Queensland Government

The Queensland Conservation Council today congratulates the Albanese Government for their election victory, and welcomes their commitments to repower Australia’s grid with renewable energy, make household batteries more affordable, and deliver much-need reforms to our broken national nature laws.

Queensland’s peak conservation group says that voters have backed the major party with stronger climate and nature credentials, which should be a lesson for Queensland’s Premier who is currently considering repealing the Sunshine State’s popular renewable and emissions targets.

Queensland Conservation Council Director Dave Copeman said

The federal election results are a clear rejection of the Coalition’s plans to water down climate action with risky slow and expensive nuclear power, massively expand polluting coal and gas, and weaken our failing nature laws instead of strengthening them.

Voters in Queensland have resoundingly voted against the Coalition’s dangerous delay tactics, resulting in the loss of at least four LNP MPs including Opposition Leader Peter Dutton.

QCC polling of the Dickson electorate showed 60% of voters believed renewables and batteries would reduce household electricity prices, compared to only 40% for building nuclear energy.

These results should be a wake up call for the Queensland Government, which is currently putting ideology over the will of the people by considering repealing Queensland’s climate targets.

David Crisafulli and Queensland LNP won government after promising to support real climate action and voting in favour of legislating Queensland’s 75 per cent emissions reduction target.

Now they’re considering a backflip on that promise at the same time as rolling out the red carpet for fossil fuel companies to increase extraction and their profits at the expense of our communities and environment.

The continued support we’ve seen nationwide in this election for independent and Greens candidates who support nature reform also demonstrates that voters are passionate about protecting Australia’s unique and vulnerable environment and wildlife.

The Albanese Government promised to fix our failing national nature laws, which are one of the root causes for the mass decline in biodiversity we’re witnessing across Australia.

It was disappointing that those reforms were not progressed in Labor’s first term, but we are determined to hold the Government to account so reforms are delivered as soon as possible.

We also expect to see the Albanese Government listen to voters and deliver a strong 2035 emission reduction target that’s aligned with the best climate science.

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