A new skirmish on energy policy is pitting Malcolm Turnbull against Tony Abbott in an argument about one of the most loaded terms in Australian politics: carbon tax.
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| Carbon tax protesters outside Parliament House in 2011. |
The Prime Minister had to tough out another challenge from his predecessor on Tuesday morning when Abbott urged a rethink of Coalition policy on energy and climate change.
It is hard to see this as anything other than a grudge match. Abbott tried to reopen old decisions about cuts to greenhouse gas emissions that were made under his own government, pinning the blame on Turnbull instead.
Read the opinion piece from The Age by David Crow - “Carbon tax: the two most loaded words in Australian politics make a return to Canberra.”
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