Australians ‘care more about cost of living than climate change’
Sky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell says Labor's franking credits and negative gearing policies hampered the party more than its climate change policies at last year's May federal election. Labor is under pressure over its decision to adopt a net zero by 2050 emissions target, a policy which Mr Clennell said the Opposition was always going to land on. With the climate target, the government argued Labor refused to learn its lesson from the 2019 election loss. But Mr Clennell insisted Labor voters cared more about their hip pocket than climate change at last year's election. Franking credits and negative gearing played much more of a role [in the election loss] than climate change, he said. Climate change is not the number one issue for people, cost of living is. Read More Our Apps