2018 election to add to economic headwinds?

Tuesday 13 June 2017

Brace for another 2018 headwind:

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull may be forced to call an election after just two years of the Coalition’s current three-year term, political hardheads believe.

Senior figures in the Liberal and Labor parties confirmed to Fairfax Media on Monday they are working to be “campaign ready” by June or July of next year, with an August or September election firming as the most likely window for the next national poll.

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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.