It seems such a highly improbable event amidst the current economic climate and governmental responses to the pandemic, but federal Labor is actively talking about splitting over climate change policy.
The issue, which helped cost Labor elections in 2016 and 2019 – and that for all intents and purposes cost them the 2013 election – remains a source of intractable policy division inside Labor ranks.
On the one side, climate change is a matter of policy dogma and perhaps (as Kevin Rudd f…