Remember when Nick Minchin started frothing at the mouth on Four Corners over the left wing conspiracy that is climate science? At the time the Coalition’s official position was to negotiate amendments with the Labor Party on the ETS, and Malcolm Turnbull was leader (though Minchin’s remarks were the first shot in the real push for his removal, and if memory serves, it was about this time that Tony Abbott revised his previous view that the CPRS should be passed).

Tony Abbott on Four Corners last night:

TONY ABBOTT (at press conference): As leader, I am not frightened of an election, and I am not frightened on an election on this issue.

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