How the hard right terminated Turnbull, only to see Scott Morrison become PM
- Written by Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne
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After a week of vicious internal party politics, Malcolm Turnbull has been deposed as prime minister and replaced not by Peter Dutton, but Scott Morrison. In today’s party room vote, Morrison, who was supported by Turnbull, defeated Peter Dutton by 45 votes to 40 in the final count. In the first round vo...
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