Julia Bishop set to challenge Dead Duck?

Tuesday, 3 February 2015

From Peter van Onselen:

Rifles rising…And now from The Australian:

TONY Abbott won’t deny that Julie Bishop refused to safeguard his leadership during a tense private meeting in which the Prime Minister demanded her loyalty.

Mr Abbott, confronted with the Sky News report this morning, gave an evasive interview in which he refused to address “insider Canberra stuff”.

Pressure is now building on the Foreign Minister, Ms Bishop, who is being publicly urged to declare her support for the beleaguered Prime Minister.

Firing squad takes aim…

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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.