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Clean and green but are the new climate tsars conflict free?

Matt Kean’s dual gigs show how limited expertise has brought investors and policymakers uncomfortably close.

Matt Kean, climate change adviser to the Albanese government, now also works for a private equity fund investing in clean energy and decarbonisation.

It’s not the first time, and it won’t be the last, that eyebrows are raised about potential conflicts of interest in Canberra.

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John Kehoe is economics editor at Parliament House, Canberra. He writes on economics, politics and business. John was Washington correspondent covering Donald Trump’s first election. He joined the Financial Review in 2008 from Treasury. Connect with John on Twitter. Email John at jkehoe@afr.com
Hannah Wootton is a Rear Window columnist, based in Melbourne. Connect with Hannah on Twitter. Email Hannah at hannah.wootton@afr.com

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