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Voters switched off a desperate Coalition
For fractious Coalition MPs amassed under Malcolm Turnbull, Monday's depressing 47-53 Newspoll was old news. Fourteen surveys old.
Mark Kenny is the national affairs editor for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, based at Parliament House
For fractious Coalition MPs amassed under Malcolm Turnbull, Monday's depressing 47-53 Newspoll was old news. Fourteen surveys old.
The Turnbull government's progress towards a historic victory on its new Gonski 2.0 school funding model threatens to be derailed by an internal rebellion from conservative MPs furious about a $4.6 billion hit to Catholic schools.
The Turnbull government has made a series major concessions to the Greens on school funding in a bid to secure the Gonski 2.0 package in the Senate. The proposed deal would be a major breakthrough for the beleaguered government. Education Minister Simon Birmingham has written to the crucial cross bench party granting almost all of its demands for extra funding guarantees etc...
Is Tony Abbott's post-leadership decompensation entering its final stage where the real harm is to his own legacy?
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The PM is under mounting pressure as pro-coal figures led by Tony Abbott lay out climate policy demands.
A frustrated Malcolm Turnbull has taken an apparent swipe at his predecessor, Tony Abbott, for reducing climate policy debate to "glib" slogans.
Growing economic inequality should be formally monitored by the nation's prime economic modelling and review body.
Tony Abbott has already come from nowhere to replace Malcolm Turnbull as leader once as the Liberal Party convulsed over Labor's progressive climate policy in 2009.
New generation coal-fired power stations and even old ones retro-fitted with carbon capture and storage, would reap financial incentives.
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