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Calling for a moratorium on new coal mines in NSW just hours before a Hunter Valley MP quit, trigging a by-election, contributed to Malcolm Turnbull being dumped from a clean economy job.
NSW Environment Minister Matt Kean has admitted the comments made by the former Liberal prime minister on ABC radio a day after he was made chair of the state s new Net-Zero Emissions and Clean Economy Board helped seal his fate. It wasn t helpful, Mr Kean told ABC radio on Wednesday.
Malcolm Turnbull has been dumped from his new job as the NSW government s climate change tsar
Mr Turnbull s five-year appointment rankled many of Mr Kean s conservative coalition colleagues, given his comments about the coal industry.