Grattan on Friday: Coal fires Tony Abbott's pre-Newspoll play
- Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
One Liberal moderate bluntly characterises the “Monash Forum”, which burst into the energy debate this week, as “the deplorables trying to give themselves a credible front”.
Whatever else it might be, the so-called forum is Tony Abbott’s latest weapon in baiting the Turnbull bear.
Coalition backbenchers who signed the...
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