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Australian Notes

Australian notes

30 April 2016

9:00 AM

30 April 2016

9:00 AM

Irony of ironies: Abbott to save Turnbull?

Putting Malcolm Turnbull in the Lodge has not worked out as the conspirators had imagined. How ironical it is that Tony Abbott may come to be Turnbull’s saviour from electoral defeat. Even then, the double dissolution could prove pointless with the government not only facing a hostile senate but also lacking a joint sitting majority.

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