Abbottalypse Now!

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Poor old Tony is taking a whooping, via Domain:

Former prime minister Tony Abbott says that in Australia “we sub-contract too much out to experts already”, and that we should not “save our planet at the expense of our neighbour”, in comments made in a debate with his independent rival for his seat of Warringah, Zali Steggall.

“Do we want experts to tell us what kind of cars to drive?” he asked the crowd gathered at the Queenscliff Surf Club.

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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.