Do-nothing Malcolm re-writes political history with ABC pen

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Via The Guardian comes the post-truth world:

Malcolm Turnbull has declared his removal from the prime ministership remains an act of unexplained madness, and has accused leading conservatives of “blowing up” the government, in his first, take-no-prisoners public appearance since the leadership coup in August.

As well as unloading on the architects of the defenestration, declaring they needed to be accountable for their actions, Turnbull also confirmed he had complained to Rupert Murdoch about punishing coverage from his news outlets. He also recounted a conversation with another media mogul, Kerry Stokes, in which Stokes warned him that Murdoch was hostile.

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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.