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It’s not going well for love, via The Guardian:

Ann Sudmalis has used parliamentary privilege to blast a state Liberal MP, Gareth Ward, accusing him of “bullying, betrayal and backstabbing” and flexing “his vengeance on strong Liberal women”.

The member for Gilmore, flanked by fellow Liberal Jane Prentice, who lost her preselection earlier this year, used the adjournment debate on Monday night to name names, having confirmed earlier on Monday that she would exit politics at the next federal election rather than seeking preselection for her marginal seat.

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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.