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Another senior Liberal has taken aim at Scott Morrison, accusing him of self-serving ruthless bullying" and claiming he has ruined" the Liberal party.
Catherine Cusack, a NSW Liberal who announced two weeks ago she would resign from the Legislative Council over her anger about flood relief, adds her voice to a growing chorus of critics of Morrison from within his own party in an opinion piece for Guardian Australia.
The concerns over the prime minister's character are now well established, and they're well established not by the Labor party, but the people who know him best.
I mean his own deputy prime minister called him a liar and a hypocrite*. These people know him best, they've served in cabinet with him, in the Liberal party with him over a period of many years ...
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