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The scab grab intensifies:
Senior government sources have confirmed Foreign Minister Julie Bishop is also counting numbers, setting up a three-tiered contest with Peter Dutton and Scott Morrison.
Ms Bishop – who would carry a rump of moderate votes with her – is understood to be trailing Mr Morrison in corralling supporters of Malcolm Turnbull.
What, Jabba Christensen not running?
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.
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