Is Turnbott sinking in the loon pond?

Wednesday, 24 February 2016

Just how much pressure is the Turnbott under from his sudden policy mentor Tony Abbott? Judging by this, a lot:

One of former prime minister Tony Abbott’s biggest supporters will be named chair of Parliament’s powerful security and intelligence committee by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

Tasmanian MP Andrew Nikolic, an arch conservative MP with hawkish views on foreign affairs, is set to replace Dan Tehan, who was promoted to the ministry in Mr Turnbull’s recent reshuffle.

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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.