Turnbull backs Abbott enemies

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From The Australian:

The Communications Minister today refused to “buy into” outrage at the Human Rights Commission president, who has lost the government’s confidence amid alleged political bias.

…“Obviously this has become a very controversial issue and there are all sorts of allegations flying around. I don’t want to get involved in that,” he said in Queanbeyan.

“The critical thing is the children; we should be focussed on the children and getting them out of detention.

And:

Mr Turnbull praised the party treasurer, Phil Higginson, and said the Liberal Party needed to “set a very high standard” by adopting the changes he set out in a leaked letter that has divided the party’s peak federal executive.

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“Transparency and accountability are very, very important in any organisation,” Mr Turnbull said on Wednesday morning.

“From what I’ve read of the recommendations they seem pretty standard recommendations about corporate governance.

Heating up.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.