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Australian labor Party’s right wing opposing renewable energy?

Whip Joel Fitzgibbon told to fall in line on renewable energy targets BY: LANAI VASEK  The Australian October 31,   THE Greens say Labor’s chief whip and former cabinet minister Joel Fitzgibbon should “back off” from his calls for the renewable energy target to be cut.
In a heated defence of the RET, Greens MP Adam Bandt said Labor needed to unite and decide if it was for or against the scheme. “The right-wing factional power brokers within the Labor party are beginning a campaign against renewable energy,” Mr Bandt said.

“This will be a litmus test for the Labor party to decide whether they have got their foot on the accelerator or the brake when it comes to Australia’s transition to a clean energy economy.”Joel Fitzgibbonneeds to back off. If Labor is serious about a renewable energy future, with the hundreds of thousands of jobs that will come with that as Australia plays its part to tackle global warming, then Joel Fitzgibbon needs to back off from his campaign to wind back the
renewable energy target.”….

Parliamentary Secretary Richard Marles said the RET was bipartisan policy and Labor had no plans to make
changes to it. “This is bipartisan policy, this was policy of the Howard government … it’s been bipartisan policy for 10 years,” Mr Marles said. “We are not talking about changing the RET.”

Liberal backbencher Alan Tudge said the Coalition was also not considering making any changes to the RET.

November 2, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, politics