Sydney Morning Herald: Can "direct action" cut Australia's carbon emissions for the price Tony Abbott says it can? Climate change minister Mark Butler says not. Last week he welcomed "new independent modelling", which he said showed the Coalition's policy would "cost billions of dollars more than Tony Abbott claims and has no chance of meeting Australia's emissions reduction target". He highlighted this finding: "To achieve the emissions reductions required to deliver the Coalition's commitment to the 5-25 per cent targets...