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Who's the unsung architect behind Labor's climate plans? A retiring Coalition minister

  • Written by Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University

The architect of the ingenious mechanism at the heart of Labor’s plan to sharply cut carbon emissions is about to leave the parliament.

Throughout the pandemic, Greg Hunt has been best known as Australia’s health minister. But before that, when the Coalition was swept to office in 2013, he became Tony Abbott’s environment...

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