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Liberal Party PTSD has changed the climate debate
A climate-wary Coalition is betting on an economic downturn to turn Australians against a policy seen as the return of an economy-wide carbon price.
Aaron PatrickSenior correspondentThe Coalition does not plan, at this stage, to launch a substantive campaign against the Labor government’s safeguard mechanism.
Liberals’ wariness about attacking the policy, which some experts believe is a step towards an economy-wide carbon price, is a sign of how much climate politics has changed.
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