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Should he survive the week, his supporters are urging him to reshuffle his frontbench next month and reward those who have stood by him. With the Coalition badly torn, the rebels are unfazed and claim the divisions are so bad Mr Turnbull's leadership...
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Last night Mr Turnbull won the Coalition party room's backing to push for changes to the scheme. The Coalition amendments will seek to make the scheme more industry-friendly and give more assistance to heavy polluters. But Mr Turnbull will still have...
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Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has won the support of the party room to negotiate a set amendments with the Government to its emissions trading scheme. After a four-and-a-half hour party room meeting in Canberra this afternoon the Coalition agreed...
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Liberal backbenchers said they would resist a deal, no matter how generous an offer the Government made. He and his spokesman on emissions trading, Ian Macfarlane, pushed ahead with trying to amend Labor's bill yesterday by meeting Government officials...
Mr Turnbull is in Perth to address the Western Australian Liberal Party State Conference today, where members will debate a motion calling on the party to delay ETS negotiations with the Government until after global climate change talks in December.
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Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull insists he will lead the party to the next election, despite struggling to keep control of his own party room. He is under fire from a group within the Coalition who oppose his strategy on emissions trading. Earlier,...
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Asked in his press conference today to explain what could happen at Copenhagen that would affect whether we should have emissions trading scheme, or that would affect the design of an emissions trading scheme, Mr Turnbull replied: "Oh, well, there are...
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Former treasurer Peter Costello has announced he is quitting politics. His early resignation from Parliament will force Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull to to deal with two by-elections after former leader Brendan Nelson quit last month. In June, Mr...
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His vow is a further blow to the authority of Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull, who promised just hours earlier to pull his troops into line on the vexed issue of climate change. The federal government will bring its ETS laws back before the Senate...
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Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has used YouTube to call on Labor to be more positive and accommodating about its emissions trading scheme during negotiations on renewable energy targets. The coalition is hoping the government will agree to...
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