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Dutton is prepared to take risks, but he is no onion eater
The signature difference between what the Coalition unleashed on Wednesday and the debilitating climate fights of the past is that both parties are operating from the assumption that emissions need to be reduced.
Phillip CooreyPolitical editorA challenge for Labor in trying to tear down the Coalition’s nuclear power plan is that Peter Dutton is not about to eat an onion.
That is, he’s not Tony Abbott, who – if he had his druthers – would quite happily have kept generating electricity from coal because he never subscribed to the science of climate change.
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