The inconvenient truth about Direct Action comes from Turnbull himself

Malcolm Turnbull is now defending the policy he criticised, but his truths about climate change won't go away and this stop-gap scheme will come badly unstuck

You asked for this Malcolm, standing in the wind outside the war memorial this week. You said journalists had "to hold up the truth to power". But in the case of your climate policy you've made our job easy. You've said so much on the subject that for the most part we can hold up your own truth to yourself.

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