Duelling prime ministers: Turnbull and Abbott locked in a Coalition death spiral | Katharine Murphy
by Katharine Murphy from World news | The Guardian on (#2KXNF)
The public is being dished up the discordant spectacle of the former PM's dogged desire to fashion the current incumbent of the Lodge in his own image
Lachlan Harris, a former political staffer who ran Kevin Rudd's press shop, coined the inimitable phrase "Kulia" to describe the toxic fusion of two warring leaders, locked in a grim battle which ultimately destroyed a Labor government in full view of the voting public.
We are not yet at "Mony" in Canberra - the dynamic of the contemporary political civil war between Malcolm Turnbull and Tony Abbott is not a perfect replica of the Labor experience - but you don't need to be a genius to observe the government is sowing the seeds of its own destruction if the dynamic persists.
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