FED: Neither party sure on climate change stance

AAP General News (Australia)
02-23-2009
FED: Neither party sure on climate change stance

By Peter Veness and Susanna Dunkerley

CANBERRA, Feb 23 AAP - Malcolm Turnbull's new focus on greenhouse gas reduction policy
is simply a diversion from internal problems in the opposition, Climate Change Minister
Penny Wong says.

The opposition leader - who has been fending off renewed speculation about the ambitions
of Peter Costello - has seized on the government's emissions trading scheme (ETS) policy,
flagging a Senate inquiry to replace the one the government axed last week.

But on Monday Liberal MPs were unwilling to define their …