Coalition MPs will stay in parliament an extra day next week to debate everyone’s views on net zero. Photo: Michelle Kroll.

As the Coalition zeroes in on deciding its net zero position, a joint partyroom debate has been scheduled for Friday (31 October), following next week’s parliamentary sitting days.

Liberals and Nationals have been asked to stay back in Canberra another day for a three-hour all-in, over exactly what energy policy the Opposition will be taking to the next federal election.

The meeting is being convened by the Coalition’s economic policy committee.

Whether to maintain support for the legislated net zero carbon emissions by 2050 or dump it is tearing the Coalition apart. Shadow ministers are quitting the front bench to speak out more freely, and both Liberals and Nati

See Full Page