Former Liberal NSW treasurer Matt Kean named new chair of Climate Change Authority

will lead the Climate Change Authority in a surprise cross-party appointment that follow’s Kean’s sudden resignation from state politics.

Kean announced last week that he was leaving politics to pursue work in the private sector but acknowledged he will continue to be in the public sector instead. “… We have an opportunity to become a stronger and even more prosperous nation, we have an opportunity to deliver a family some of the cheapest electricity bills anywhere in the world. But we’ve got to get it right. This is too important to leave to chance. We need policies based on facts and evidence. And that’s what I intend to be advising the government.”

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