Matt Kean

Worse still, an official invitation was instead addressed directly to their dead son to mark a war in which he lost his life 18 years ago.

Now, the buck I would've thought stops with the Veterans Affairs minister, Matt Kean.

How he's still in the job is beyond me, especially when the minister has overseen failure after failure.

He's also attempted to cut funding and cap the Allied Health services of the brave men and women who still carry the mental and physical scars of their military service.

It's unacceptable, and it also proves his position is untenable.

Now, I would've thought any government minister with a shred of decency would own it and take responsibility for it.

Not Matt Kean.

No, Michael McCormack demanded an explanation from the minister in Question Time yesterday, and all he wanted to do was shift the blame onto somebody else.

But yeah, fossil fuels is the main driver of it.

And unless we get off them as quick as possible, We're not just going to see hotter and hotter years, we're going to see catastrophe piled upon catastrophe.

G'day, I am here with Matt Keane, the Chairman of Australia's Climate Change Authority.

Of all the reasons for acting on climate change, what do you think is the thing which really

spurs us to do more? Well, I think the risks of climate change make action necessary, but it's the economics that are making it even more appealing.

57% from our coal-fired power stations.

And on this subject, Matt Kean, this is the former Liberal Treasurer, now climate guru in Canberra.

Matt Kean says Australia needs to go faster to hit Labor's 82% renewables target by 2030.

You know what go faster means, don't you? Let's double the subsidies.

Why don't we just pay- ... for what it costs investors to build wind turbines and solar farms.

Um, the environment being one of them.

And now you get this situation where, um, the, um, there's been approval for the largest coal mining, uh, development in New South Wales history, and this just gives David Shoebridge a running start because you've got Matt Kean, a former minister, former treasurer and energy minister in the New South Wales Government, who's now running the Climate Change Authority, um, having a go at them over this and pointing out that it's, um, that even the, the company themselves say that this, this could, um, uh, could have a significant boost to the carbon dioxide levels in Australia and it could actually double climate change pollution once it's exported and, and burned elsewhere.

So on the other hand, you get Chris Minns who responds to this and doesn't...

And, and he says, "Look, it's about jobs and it's about revenue." He doesn't mention any climate change impact.