because the australian government has never said this before and the prime minister. has actively avoided making this sort of commitment - in the lead up to cop26, so now the expectationsj are that actually - australia might move to net zero before cop26. i think the international- friends of australia might — to borrow a line from emma bunton — say, | what took you so long? david, this will presumably go down well in downing street if this is the case, but borisjohnson has got enough problems at home with the effects of his energy policy — subsidising consumer prices, subsidising production costs. there's a price cap to limit how much they're going up for consumers, albeit they'll still go up, i think 12%, isn't it? i mean, is that the best way to square this circle? every government faces the dilemma of, how do you limit the rise in the cost of living for families — for voters, let's be blunt — while also trying to tackle climate change? if you were to take a really purest economist view, you would say the most logical thing to do is to apply a carbon tax if you want to limit the use of fossil fuels. there are already some carbon