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Tom McIlroy

Labor's climate truce ends in a storm

Climate change policy has been at the centre of a raging debate in Canberra for more than a decade, and it can still make or break careers.

Tom McIlroyCanberra Bureau Chief

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The first sign Labor's climate wars could erupt again came without fanfare, late on the afternoon of November 2.

Amid months of tensions over policy on coal and carbon, an emailed interview transcript showed resources spokesman Joel Fitzgibbon had broken free of the party's centralised message control.

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Tom McIlroy is the Financial Review’s Canberra bureau chief based in the press gallery at Parliament House. He was previously the AFR’s political correspondent. Connect with Tom on Twitter. Email Tom at thomas.mcilroy@afr.com

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