Two more Coalition MPs have urged Opposition Leader Sussan Ley to dump support for Australia’s pledge to reach net zero emissions by 2050, following frontbencher Andrew Hastie’s ultimatum on Monday night that he would quit the front bench if she backed the climate target.

South Australian Liberal MP Tony Pasin and Queensland Nationals senator Matt Canavan – both long opposed to the Coalition’s net zero commitment – told this masthead they backed Hastie’s demands to dump the target and urged Ley to tackle the divisions threatening party unity again.

Opposition energy spokesman Dan Tehan is leading a review of the Coalition’s climate policies that Ley ordered after the Nationals brief split from her party after the May election. But as the government prepares to announce Australia’s 2035 e

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