'Bitter' Turnbull using bushfires 'to vindicate his position on climate change'
The Institute of Public Affairs Gideon Rozner says "bitter" former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull, is undertaking "callous" acts to try and use the "bushfires to vindicate his position on climate change". Sky News host Sharri Markson had said there is no bigger culprit than Turnbull when it comes to exiting politics and complaining about what needs to be done by the current government. Ms Markson said when Malcolm Turnbull was prime minister, he backed coal, and said action on climate change should not risk jobs or the economy. But now he has recast himself as a climate change crusader, arguing the reverse of all that he stood for as prime minister," Ms Markson said. "What Malcolm Turnbull is doing is very, very transparent here," Mr Rozner told the Sky News host. "He is doing something though that is not just bitter and twisted but is positively ghoulish and callous, he is using these bushfires to vindicate his position on climate change". Mr Rozner said the former prime minister is using "these terrible tragedies" to try and "wedge a bit [of an] 'I told you so' into the media cycle". Image: News Corp Australia Read More Our Apps