UN should attack China on climate, not Australia

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UN climate chief Simon Stiell jetted into Australia to blame us for the world’s climate woes.

Stiell claimed that Australia will let the world “overheat” and stated that fruit will be a “once-a-year treat” if the Albanese government doesn’t lift its clean-energy ambitions.

He also warned that unambitious interim targets would destroy Australia’s “high living standards” and make the current grocery price crisis “look like a picnic”.

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.