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In announcing she would not contest the next election, the member for the highly-marginal Chisholm has cited bullying and intimidation for provoking her decision.
Bishop could presumably expect to receive some attractive job offers in the next few months, and if the right one came along, domestic or international, she would be taking it.
Michelle Grattan speaks with Deep Saini about the extraordinary week in Australian politics.
Their longest serving leader built the modern Liberal Party after its predecessor collapsed in 1941– but it took him eight years and defeat in two elections.
New prime minister Scott Morrison now faces the huge task of reuniting the party and devising policy positions that can satisfy the liberals and conservatives within.
The National Party has the opportunity to use its role within the Coalition to exercise its influence on behalf of rural Australia.
Morrison would be mistaken if he believed his party’s salvation lay in a further lurch to the right in pursuit of an ill-defined “base”
Analysis of the polls shows the deposing of Malcolm Turnbull made absolutely no electoral sense.
Turnbull brought a Menzian style to his leadership, but the world has changed quite a bit since Robert Menzies.
Our revolving door prime ministers are the result of the politicians being too responsive to what we think, and there being too few of them.
Whether we end up with Prime Minister Turnbull, Dutton, Morrison or Bishop – it will not be sweetness and light among those who find themselves at the “out-group” when the dust begins to settle.
News Corp, Sky News and 2GB have contributed to the creeping ‘Foxification’ of Australian politics over the life of the Turnbull government.
Prtime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will invite a leadership “spill” motion at midday Friday, once a majority of Liberals formally ask for a party meeting.
Malcolm Turnbull’s prime ministership appears over, with senior ministers deserting him in favour of challenger Peter Dutton.
Whoever ends up the Liberal prime minister will need to articulate a more coherent economic policy to help everyday Australians.
In staying hostage to this right-wing lunge, rather than fighting to move it back to the mainstream, Turnbull erased his moderate face, destroying his only utility – electoral utility – to the Liberals.
In her resignation letter to the Prime Minister, Fierravanti-Wells reminded him that months ago she had told him Peter Dutton should become deputy Liberal leader, replacing Julie Bishop.
The crowding of the centre-right is having profound consequences for Australian politics, not just Turnbull’s troubled time as prime minister.
The prime minister has survived a challenge from the conservative wing of his party- but the deep divisions remain.
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