Could the loon pond really bring back Abbott?

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Why not? They’re mad after all. And there is no post-poll bounce for a broken Malcolm Turnbull. On the contrary, from Newspoll today:




Shorten continues to rise and Turnbull fall. While the two party preferred numbers are close Turnbull is safe but why would they hold up from here as Turnbull’s agenda is laughably inadequate and his legislation sunk on the rocks of a hostile senate, his Budget will fall apart with iron ore across 2017 and the economy will continue to struggle.

Once TPP falls away for the placeholder PM, all bet are off.

About the author
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.