To say that Joe Biden won the US election off the back of significant climate change policy “is just complete misrepresentation of what played out there,” according to Labor’s Joel Fitzgibbon.

“I very vividly remember Joe Biden very loudly shouting his support for coal seam gas, or maybe for fracking, maybe in the shale gas industry, right in the middle of that campaign,” Mr Fitzgibbon said.

“We need to act on climate change. I back zero net emissions, of course I do. But we don’t need to throw the baby out with the bathwater.”

“What Anthony Albanese does need to do more is talk about those people in the blue collar, in high vis, in the regions, working hard, proudly, every day, doing what they do for this country”.