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Nominations for the ALP leadership close on Monday. So, if no one else pops their head up over the next few days, the opposition begins its official renewal from Monday.
We should know what the Morrison cabinet will look like on Monday as well. Then it's a case of working out when parliament will come back. Plus, finding some stuff to legislate.
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Tony Burke also echoed what he told Murph, about where he believes Labor's climate policy needs to go:
When we work through the policy review, I have got a really strong view that we're reviewing policies, we're not reviewing values.
What I mean by that is we respect - with respect to climate change policy, the government has dared us to say, "Your targets were too high. That's what you should abandon."
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