NSW fires live: RFS warns south coast tourists to leave as Victoria bushfires continue – latest

At least nine people have died since Christmas Day, and the RFS is urging people to evacuate the New South Wales south coast before dangerous conditions on the weekend. Follow the live news and latest updates today 1.54am GMT What does Anthony Albanese think needs to change? Does the nation need to consider a carbon price?Well, it needs a mechanism of some form. Now, the government came up with – under Malcolm Turnbull – it went through the party room – the NEG, the national energy guarantee. What you need is a signal that creates an investment certainty. Now NEG was one. 1.52am GMT Anthony Albanese is using this interview, which comes ahead of Scott Morrison’s doorstop interview at 1pm, to hit the government over its climate change strategy.Well, the government has to actually not say that nothing needs to change. The truth is that they’re right when they say Australia acting alone is not enough, but the problem is not only are we not acting, we’re actually preventing global action through the argument that we put at Madrid that, rather than reducing emissions, we should have accountancy fiddles. Continue reading…
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