It is certainly convenient and natural for media and political insiders to focus on the personal conflict between Abbott and Turnbull, or the ideological conflict between Coalition conservatives and leftists. Articles about personal or intra-party spats write themselves. Take a longer and broader view, however, and what we see is the bipartisan breakdown of political class legitimacy.
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