Ministers Defend Decision to Take Separate Private Jets to Official Climate Event

Published on April 2, 2024

Australian Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen has defended the decision to take two Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) jets to a climate change announcement with the prime minister. The two jets travelled from Canberra to the Scone Memorial Airport in the Hunter Valley for a solar energy press conference. “The Air Force advised that the most efficient way of getting the prime minister and two Cabinet ministers to the Liddell Power Station was to go to Scone Airport, where the runway was not rated for the prime minister’s normal large jet,” Mr. Bowen said at a press conference in Fairfield NSW on April 1....