Last rites as Cormman calls for Turnbull resignation

Wednesday 22 August 2018

Last rites now:

Mathias Cormann, Mitch Fifield and Michaelia Cash have told Malcolm Turnbull he should resign because he has lost the support of the Liberal partyroom. The three ministers resigned from the frontbench and have asked the Prime Minister to call a partyroom meeting.

Labor has thrown a spanner in the works, refering Dutton to the High Court:

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.