Australia politics live: new legal action launched against Murray Watt for North West Shelf approval; Ley out in cold over Joy Division T-shirt comments

<p>Follow updates live</p><ul><li><p>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">breaking news email</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></p></li></ul><p>The Coalition is still in the middle of a fight over the future of its energy policy, with big fractures between members over whether the 2050 net zero target should be kept.</p><p>The party is working towards something of a compromise, but there are a few moderates who don’t want that target to change – including shadow housing minister <strong>Andrew Bragg</strong>.</p><p>Look, I think we’ll get there on net zero. I know there’s a lot of interest in it. I think ultimately there’s an ability there for the Coalition to do this much better than Labor. Labor’s net zero [policy] has been a disaster …</p><p>I think we could do net zero better than Labor in terms of emissions and cost and environmental protection, <strong>but you’ve got to keep net zero</strong>.</p><p>I know that you probably find it all very interesting to talk about, but we do have a culture of openness in the Liberal party and the National party, and we seem to talk about a lot of things. I mean, frankly, <strong>I wonder what the nation will talk about if the Liberal party died, because I think we’d sort of run out of things to discuss.</strong></p><p>Communities around the country are trying to focus and talk about the issues that matter to them, not try to make some fake news thing out of a T-shirt the prime minister gets wearing off a plane. It’s ridiculous.</p><p>Look, there’s a lot to legitimately criticise the prime minister about trillion dollar debt, skyr