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Australia’s Political Infighting May Have Already Doomed Its New Government

Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison, right, gestures while speaking with Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party Josh Frydenberg during their first press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Aug. 24, 2018 (AP photo by Andrew Taylor).
Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison, right, gestures while speaking with Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party Josh Frydenberg during their first press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Aug. 24, 2018 (AP photo by Andrew Taylor).
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Malcom Turnbull’s tenure as prime minister of Australia ended the same way it began: with an intra-party revolt. Turnbull, a moderate in his conservative Liberal Party, successfully contested then-Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s leadership in September 2015. But Abbott and his supporters moved to exact revenge, finally pushing Turnbull out last month. Scott Morrison, the newly sworn-in prime minister, takes the helm of a Liberal Party weakened by internal strife and a tenuous grip on power, as the opposition Labor Party surges ahead in the polls. In an email interview, Lloyd Cox, a lecturer in politics at Macquarie University in Sydney, […]

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