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Businessman and the Carlton Football Club’s longest-serving president, John Elliott, has died in hospital aged 79.
It is understood he was hospitalised after a recent fall.
He led the Blues through a record 20-year presidency, with the larger-than-life figure overseeing a significant period of on-and-off field success throughout his tenure.
My thoughts and prayers are with Caroline, Tom and the whole Elliot family today.
John Elliot was a giant of Australian business, politics and sport. A larger-than-life personality and a lifelong Liberal and Carlton supporter. John will be greatly missed.
The treasurer has been asked, as a representative for an inner-city city, how nervous he is going into the next federal election with the lacklustre climate policy that the Coalition currently has.
Frydenberg:
I remember doing an interview with you and people expected us to be turfed out. We prosecuted the case for sensible, costed policies to reduce emissions and, if you look at the facts, our emission profile as a nation is down by more than 20% on what they were in 2005. That’s around double the OECD average.
It is a faster reduction than Canada, New Zealand and the United States. We have put in place the technology investment roadmap of about $20bn. That’s going to leverage around three to four times that in terms of private sector investment. We’re focusing on hydrogen and we have got new partnerships with the UK, Singapore and Germany. We have got a lot of work underway.
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