Parts of Australia's new net-zero climate policy are finally public.

But many who've read its 129 pages say the much-anticipated 'plan' is light on for detail, leaning heavily on existing policies, untested technologies, hypothetical future breakthroughs, and promises politicians will do as they say.

So will it actually get us to net zero?

And does it really protect the regions, as the Government claims?

Today on The Signal we look at how Australia's two governing parties landed this deal, and ask whether the plan differs at all from the status quo.

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Professor Geoff Cockfield, Honorary professor of politics and economics, Institute for Resilient Regions and Centre for Sustainable Agricultural Systems, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland