Australia news updates live: Coalition under fire for plans to help fund carbon capture storage

Labor dismisses Morrison government's plans for $500m low emissions fund as 'all spin and politics'Vaccine rollout tracker; Cases and data trackerNSW Covid restrictions; Victoria restrictionsVictoria vaccination rate map; NSW vaccination rates mapGood morning everyone, its hump day here on the blog and we are starting the morning talking about climate policy. (It's Matilda Boseley with you this morning, by the way.)Energy Minister Angus Taylor says the government's new climate billion-dollar funding announcement is "starting with the solutions", as others raise their eyebrows at the focus on carbon capture and storage. "Lots of people when it comes to climate policy want to wipe industries out. They started this position where they said we want to see resources industries gone or agriculture impacted. That's not where we start. We started the solution. Low emissions technologies that can bring down emissions, and if any technology can contribute to that we should be looking at that... Continue reading...