Nationals protect Dead Duck with split threat

Thursday, 5 February 2015

Dearie me, these guys know how to pick a loser! From The Australian:

NATIONALS Leader Warren Truss has declared that the Coalition agreement is between Tony Abbott and himself and a change of leader would require it to be renegotiated.

…Nationals have privately indicated they would have trouble working with Malcolm Turnbull if he regained the leadership.

…He said there would have to be a “different agreement’’ if there was a different leader.

I guess that’s an olive branch of sorts to Malcolm. There’s no survival for the Coalition except together.

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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.