Abbott pans own 'crazy' pollution target

''The other crazy thing about this is that at the same time that our country is proposing to reduce its emissions by 5 per cent, just 5 per cent, the Chinese are proposing to increase their emissions by 500 per cent,'' he told a group of pensioners.

Hard sell: Gillard clashes with Hazelwood workers

Hazelwood worker Gary Sevenson said after the ''quite heated'' meeting: ''I don't think too many people were convinced by what she was trying to sell.