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Mar 2022
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The floods have damaged Scott Morrison b...

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Political reporter Paul Karp joins Peter Lewis, the executive director of Essential, and Ebony Bennett, deputy director of the Australia Institute, to analyse the latest Guardian Essential poll and unpick why catastrophic climate events have created the perfect political storm for the Morrison government 
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