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Under fire (from left): Martin Parkinson, Tim Flannery, Jillian Broadbent, Oliver Yates.

'You bastards sacked me.' When the climate sceptics arrived

How did environmental issues become so politicised? The people purge early in the Abbott government – beginning in 2013 with the "night of the short knives" – gives some clues.

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