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Leading article Australia

ScoMo’s last chance

5 January 2019

9:00 AM

5 January 2019

9:00 AM

As election year dawns, polls point to a looming Coalition electoral catastrophe at the hands of Bill Shorten and Labor. The Liberal party still reels from the idiotic political assassination of Tony Abbott and the disastrous self-indulgent reign of Malcolm Turnbull, not to mention the fallout of the leadership change, triggered by a lethal combination of Mr Turnbull’s poor policy judgment (the ludicrously-flawed and disingenuous NEG, a carbon tax by stealth) and his poor political judgment (‘I know, I’ll call a spill — that’ll teach ‘em!’).

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