The ghost of Tony Abbott stalks the halls in Paris

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ill Shorten nearly got it right when he proclaimed on ABC radio: “Malcolm Turnbull and I are both in Paris, but the person who is running Australia’s climate change policy is Tony Abbott.”

A more accurate summation would be Tony Abbott and his allies are trying to run that policy as the battle for the heart and soul of the Coalition government remains unresolved.

It is not only the Monkeypod room lunchers – the conservative Liberals who join Immigration Minister Peter Dutton for lunch on parliamentary sitting Tuesdays – but also the Nationals who are on alert for the old orthodoxy.

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