Is the Coalition best placed to manage a Brexit shock?

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From Malcolm of the short memory on Brexit yesterday at the AFR:

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has sought to soothe local jitters over Britain’s shock exit from the European Union while at the same using the situation to his political advantage by warning that only a re-elected Coalition government can successfully deal with economic uncertainty.

Labor Leader Bill Shorten shifted his response to Brexit, arguing British Prime Minister David Cameron had failed to reign in party disunity, and Liberal divisions on gay marriage showed Mr Turnbull was leading a divided party that would collapse in office.

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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.