The Dutton Government agenda revealed

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So the Turnbull Government is finished, via The Australian:

Malcolm Turnbull was last night facing a fresh crisis with the threat of a second challenge to his leadership looming, after two cabinet ministers and five junior conservative frontbenchers quit or offered to resign, having voted for Peter Dutton in yesterday’s ­partyroom ballot.

Trade Minister Steve Ciobo and Human Services Minister ­Michael Keenan last night offered to step down, telling Mr Turnbull they had not backed him in the ballot brought on by the Prime Minister to head off a growing ­rebellion…He has only accepted the resignations of Mr Dutton and senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells, who wrote a scathing letter criticising Mr Turnbull’s leadership.

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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.