Australia news live: Canavan says Nationals ‘need a shake-up’ as party prepares for leadership ballot; former Liberal MP pushes Tim Wilson to lead

Matt Canavan is not expected to have the numbers to tip David Littleproud out of the Nationals leadership. Follow today’s news live

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Liberal MP urges party not to ‘break apart into warring camps’ over leadership

Sussan Ley and Angus Taylor are both “honest about the scale of the challenge” faced by the Liberal party, Liberal MP Dave Sharma has said.

I haven’t heard from him.

There’s just not credible evidence that droughts or floods are getting worse in this country … is that the science? What is the science then? Is it the IPCC reports? That’s what’s in their report.

I don’t know what happened. It’s about 10 years ago. It seemed like global warming wasn’t really working. So it changed to climate change, and started talking about floods and cyclones and these things. And when you actually read the signs, there’s very little evidence that most of those natural disasters are getting any worse. Heatwaves is different.

Well, the temperature is rising, as noted about that. It’s happening in the oceans as well. But the question is calibrating our response to what the risks are.