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“Surpassing Turnbull’s to-do list is the number of Abbott’s woulda shoulda coulda moments” Niki Savva tells us in her column in today’s Australian. A moment’s reflection might have suggested to her that an article chiding Turnbull, albeit gently, for having achieved absolutely nothing in the year since he usurped Abbott, might not be the ideal vehicle for traducing Abbott’s achievements as PM — achievements such as stopping the boats, repealing the carbon and mining taxes, three free-trade agreements, putting the brakes on corporate welfare, mending our relationship with Indonesia and, after years of prevarication, deciding the site of Sydney’s second airport to name but a few.
Undeterred, today Savva treats us to a diatribe that might have been written by David Marr, were he determined to make himself a deliberate laughingstock.
The main thrust of Savva’s treatise, as proposed in the headline, is that conservatives, whom she categorizes as “extreme Right” and “Delcons”,…
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