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The AFR today has the scoop on ongoing tensions within the Coalition:
As Liberals whose careers were ruined by backing Peter Dutton lashed out privately at Mr Dutton and Mathias Cormann for bungling the coup, Labor prepared to exploit what will be the government’s minority status when Parliament next sits, owing to Malcolm Turnbull’s decision to quit politics on Friday.
This will trigger a byelection in his eastern Sydney seat of Wentworth and, at a minimum, the government will be down a number for two parliamentary weeks and vulnerable to losing a vote on the floor of the House of Representatives, especially if an MP misses a division.
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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.
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