Moment after moment of madness: Liberals manage the ugliest, messiest leadership challenge in history
- Written by Frank Bongiorno, Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Tolstoy’s famous remark in Anna Karenina may well apply to political parties: “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
It certainly applies to spills. Each unhappy event is unique in its particular combination of ambition, rancour and absurdity. But the...