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New analysis from CARE shows most climate finance for developing countries is not new money.

Across the 23 donor countries analysed, only 6% of climate finance in 2018 was in addition to aid targets, despite agreement that it should be “new and additional”.

As negotiations in Glasgow wound up, the Alliance of Small Island States said the draft COP26 outcome does not provide strong enough assurances of support to at-risk countries.

The aid agencies also condemned Australia’s failure to update emissions reduction targets for 2030. Based on our wealth and emissions, Oxfam and ActionAid have calculated that Australia’s fair share of climate finance should be $12 billion annually by 2030.

The aid agencies are calling on the Australian Government to step up and immediately increase climate finance to $3 billion over the next five years, in addition to the aid budget. The agencies also call for Australia to rejoin the UN’s Green Climate Fund, as supported by neighbouring countries in our region.

For those playing along at home the government has finally dropped the net zero modelling here.

I’ll see if we can get some expert analysis for you.

And that is it from Albanese.

We’ll have more on the government’s modelling when it drops this afternoon – as I am sure you are all keen to have a look.

Albanese is defending Labor’s policies on climate change. He says they will have more to announce.

“We have a policy for community batteries, for solar. We have a policy of new energy apprenticeships to make sure that Australians can benefit from that job creation.

“We have policies when it comes to climate across the board, but we have more to say, and we will have more to say during the election campaign. What we won’t do is promise things that we can’t deliver.

“We want to have an ambitious program but one that’s realistic, one whereby people know, when they vote for us, what they’ll get in their first term.”

Now we are going to Anthony Albanese in Melbourne.

He is attacking the PM for not legislating net zero by 2050.

“It should be legislated. This is a government that actually stand up and say, they’re trying to make legislation a pejorative word. I don’t know what they think goes on in parliament, but in most parliament’s they’re call legislatures because what they do is they debate laws and legislation.”

Morrison is now attacking Labor for not having a plan on climate change.

“They have no plan and no modelling in terms of how they say they’re getting to 2050. They say they want to put policies in place that tell you what to do, rather than allow you to make the choices.”

Each is attacking the other for not having a plan … when neither has a clear plan. Welcome to pre-election time folks.

Morrison is asked if he needs a more ambitious plan on climate change ahead of the election, especially to keep voters in Victorian seats like Higgins or Kooyong on side.

He says the government will release the modelling behind its net zero 2050 plan at some point today.

“And today, as modelling will be released on our plan to get Australia to net zero by 2050, a plan that is about technology, not taxes, it’s about choices, not mandates.

“It’s about having a portfolio of technologies that we can have brought to scale and at the right cost to ensure that our economy can be on that path, that ensures that we have affordable, reliable power.”

Now we are on to net zero and the government’s modelling. Morrison says:

“But this is the point, when you make assumptions about achieving technology targets, now, you will be familiar with the technology targets we have set up with the low-emissions technology program.

“Hydrogen for $2 a kilo, for example, when you can get technologies at the right price so they can be commercialised and introduced at scale, then you know how that will impact on industrial processes and how these fuels are used in Australia.

“And that’s how you work that through your modelling of the economy, to understand its impacts on being able to lift up jobs.”

Morrison is now talking about the Aukus agreement and our fallout with the French after dumping the $90bn submarines contract with France. Here are the main quotes:

“Of course the French are upset.

“I decided, and my government decided, that Australian needed better and that we needed nuclear-propelled submarines.

“I am prepared to make those decisions and if they are upset with me, I understand. But I’m not going to have Australia’s best interests intimidated by people who might be a bit upset with me over things like that.”

The PM said Labor want to “push” people into buying electric vehicles – even though there was no mandate in their policy.

“Labor wants to control what you do. They want to control your life, they want government more involved in your life. It is not how we will secure the economic recovery.”

The prime minister is speaking in Melbourne.

MPs have a conscience vote and debate is expected to go all day, until 5 pm, so we’ll have more on that as it goes along.

We’ve also heard from NSW Labor MP Joe Haylen who co-sponsored the bill – she spoke in support.

“I can only speak for myself when I say that this is a choice I would like available to me if I was terminally ill.

“When it is my time to go, if I am suffering and unable to benefit from further care, I would want to say goodbye on my own terms, surrounded by my family with the same respect and dignity with which I try to live my life.”

And we have an update from the NSW parliament where members are debating the legislation to legalise voluntary assisted dying.

The debate has started and it is already passionate. Premier Dominic Perrottet is opposed to the bill, which was introduced by independent Alex Greenwich.

Perrottet started the debate, saying his grandmother is currently dying from pancreatic cancer and although she is suffering, he does not think voluntary assisted dying is the answer.

He promised to fix the NSW palliative care system.

“Our society is judged by how it treats its most vulnerable. The sick, the frail, the elderly, the disabled.

“It sees them as a blessing, not as a burden. It stands in solidarity with those who suffer. And it accompanies the sick and the dying on their journey. Not offering death but care, comfort and compassion.”

After a slow start, 90% of Australians aged 16 and over have now had their first dose of a Covid vaccine.

On Twitter the health minister Greg Hunt said: “Thank you to each and every Australian who has had their vaccination. You are protecting yourself, your loved ones, your community and helping Australia to reopen and stay safely open.”