Grattan on Friday: A 'game-changer' gun changes Turnbull-Abbott game
- Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Political pundits often talk about the “transactional costs” of coups. On Thursday, the cost of having around a deeply unhappy and still angry ousted leader suddenly became alarmingly high for the government.
When Malcolm Turnbull told Parliament that the prime ministerial office of Tony Abbott knew of the 2015 deal with Senate...