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10 March 2018

9:00 AM

10 March 2018

9:00 AM

Back in 2009, when Malcolm Turnbull lost the federal Liberal leadership, the feisty Bronwyn Bishop said that the members had ‘lent’ Mr Turnbull the party but now they wanted it back. The big question,  with Turnbull having lost his 28th Newspoll and with 30 straight losses looming four Mondays hence, is who will call time on this failed prime minister?

To justify his anti-Abbott coup, Turnbull cited his predecessor’s loss of 30 successive Newpolls as clear evidence that voters had stopped listening and cited the alleged lack of an economic narrative as evidence that the Abbott government had failed.

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