Coalition confesses to "Abbott-Turnbull war"

Not that we didn’t know:

Leaked government talking points suggest Tony Abbott and Malcolm Turnbull remain at “war”, despite the two “working in the same direction” on reforming the NSW Liberal Party.

A list of daily media messages prepared for an unnamed Coalition MP and obtained by Sky News on Thursday tells the MP to say that there is “no sign of any conflict” between the leadership rivals.

But the section of the document that says the pair are “working in the same direction” on controversial internal Liberal Party reform plans is embarrassingly headed “Abbott-Turnbull war”.

Prepare for worse polls.

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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.

Coalition confesses to “Abbott-Turnbull war”