Australia politics live: Labor reveals new tactic in battle over Senate question time; Joyce warns Coalition split ‘not as easy as you think’

<p>Joyce<strong> </strong>has claimed credit for the Coalition sitting on the brink of dropping or dramatically altering its net zero emissions by 2050 pledge. Follow today’s news 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><strong>Melissa McIntosh wants Liberals to ‘get their act together’</strong></p><p>Internal divisions haven’t stopped Coalition MPs fronting up to their morning interviews today, including shadow communications minister <strong>Melissa McIntosh</strong>, who tells ABC RN Breakfast the public want her party to “get their act together”.</p><p>This is not an ideological thing that we don’t believe in climate change or any of that sort of stuff. They’re just really struggling. Their power prices are up … <strong>Dan Tehan</strong> has been very consultative with colleagues for weeks now, and there’s been a number of working groups, a number of meetings, a number of sessions for people to be involved with I think we’ll come to a position relatively soon.</p><p>At the moment all [Liberals] seem to care about is their own political prospects, which are heading to oblivion if they continue to behave this way.</p><p>I don’t think [Ley’s] been particularly impressive herself, to be honest, but, you know, people want the conservative side of politics to have a policy platform. We’ve seen in Victoria for many years what happens when you don’t have an effective Opposition. What you have is a poor government that can do what it likes and Australians deserve better. They need to have an effective Opposition. So I would hope that the Coalition can pull itself together in some shape or form so it can do that.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/nov/04/australia-politics-live-keating-trump-anthony-albanese-sussan-ley-david-littleproud-net-zero-policy-coalition-question-time-energy-policy-ntwnfb">Continue reading...</a>