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Leading article Australia

Heart and soul

9 March 2017

3:00 PM

9 March 2017

3:00 PM

‘He [Tony Abbott] knows exactly what he’s doing. I’m not going to go into what private conversations I have with him, but he knows exactly what he’s doing, and so do his colleagues,’ seethed Malcolm Turnbull, before adding Mathias Cormann’s pre-tested line: ‘It’s sad.’

This was the bizarre response from one prime minister to a former prime minister’s policy manifesto for victory at the next election.

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