Coalition confronted with wipeout

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From The Australian:

Analysis by The Australian suggests the Coalition would lose 20 seats — four in NSW, nine in Queensland, two in South Australia and five in Western Australia — if the election matched the state-by-state swings shown in the quarterly Newspoll survey published this week. Three cabinet ministers — Peter Dutton, Christian Porter and Michael Keenan — would be among those to lose their seats, along with fellow frontbencher Ken Wyatt.

…Conservatives blamed Mr Pyne for yesterday’s furore over same-sex marriage when the government should have been campaigning on the successful passage of its Gonski 2.0 school funding boost in the Senate last week. “The PM’s trying to hold things together in a difficult situation,” said one Liberal. “For Christopher to go and say what he said was just sheer stupidity.”

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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.