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Malcolm Turnbull's secret Senate weapon: Cormannator the negotiator
He was a member of Tony Abbott's prime ministerial Praetorian guard to the very end: a hardline cigar-chomping conservative who did all he could to keep Malcolm Turnbull out of The Lodge.