The Liberal party, its leaders are fond of claiming, is a broad church. But even the walls of St Paul’s would be creaking if they tried to contain the giant egos of Malcolm Turnbull and Andrew Bolt within their boundaries.
The two men both regard themselves as the ‘real’ Liberal party: Turnbull the millionaire silvertail with the compassionate liberal (small-l) centre, and Bolt, the immigrant boy from the bush, an uncompromising Conservative (big-C).
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Mungo MacCallum, a journalist and author, has been covering federal politics for more than 40 years.
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