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Will the GG really call a DD?

19 March 2016

9:00 AM

19 March 2016

9:00 AM

Malcolm Turnbull has missed the bus. Not only over economic leadership, but also on a double dissolution which is no more than an empty threat (unless, consistent with his left wing views, he has secretly formed a broad Liberal-Greens alliance to be revealed only after the election). An agile coup leader would have immediately reformed the senate voting rules and then been ready to recommend a double dissolution in February.

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