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Environment
Poppy Johnston

Former PM laments coalition's anti-climate 'religion'

Malcolm Turnbull says Matt Canavan couldn't fathom investing in coal didn't make economic sense. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

Fossil fuel zealotry, not economics, fuels the anti-climate views of a number of Malcolm Turnbull's former coalition colleagues, he says, including the newly elected Nationals leader.

The former prime minister says an increasing proportion of Liberals and Nationals are living in a "right-wing, fact-free, culture war bubble of anger-tainment".

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