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Australia's pledge to achieve net zero carbon emissions relies in part on the success of the federal government’s carbon market.
But explosive claims from a former head of the government’s integrity body show almost all the money spent on emissions reduction has gone to projects that did not contribute to reductions.
Today, national correspondent for The Saturday Paper Mike Seccombe on the man blowing the whistle on the Morrison government’s sham carbon projects.
Guest: National correspondent for The Saturday Paper, Mike Seccombe.
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