Shadow resources and agriculture minister Joel Fitzgibbon has quit the shadow cabinet so he can continue to agitate from the backbench on climate change and other policy, including tax.
In doing so, he warned Labor leader Anthony Albanese that a "substantial'' proportion of the caucus shared his views and that Labor would lose the next election unless "he listens to Joel Fitzgibbon more''.
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