No doubt Scott Morrison hoped he’d be granted a bit of a honeymoon by the whole “net zero by 2050” thing. Having dragged the Nationals kicking-and-screaming over the line and launched—on 26 October—Australia’s Long-Term Emissions Reduction Plan, he perhaps thought he could bask for a moment in the warm (green) glow of what was clearly meant to be viewed as a politically transformative moment for the government.