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Australia's prime minister-elect Scott Morrison wields a lump of coal in parliament in February, 2017. Malcolm Turnbull, foreground left, did not contest a leadership challenge on Friday (Photo: Commons)
Turnbull says party is captured by ideologues with views not based in 'engineering and economics' - he is replaced by treasurer who brought lump of coal to parliament
Australia's governing party cannot agree a climate policy because of anti-science forces within, the outgoing prime minister said just moments after being deposed in a party room coup on Friday...
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