Australian Conservatives has uploaded a new policy manifesto to its website which advocates “immediately” halving Australia’s net immigration intake and withdrawing from the UN refugee convention to allow Australia to determine its refugee intake “free from external constraints”. A Galaxy poll published this week suggested Australian Conservatives is polling ahead of One Nation’s result at the last federal election. That poll says Cory Bernardi’s breakaway party is on 6% of the vote, compared with One Nation’s 5.5% at the 2016 federal election. The new Australian Conservatives position opposes all renewable energy targets, opposes subsidies for electricity generation and requires all power supplied to the grid to be synchronous. States move towards clean energy, but Frydenberg says Coalition won't be rushed Read moreThe next major battle inside the Coalition is on energy policy.

Source: The Guardian August 09, 2017 01:32 UTC