Modern Australian

Now Malcolm Turnbull is the sniper at the window

  • Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

There’s a nice story about Arthur Fadden - the Country Party leader who became PM in the 1941 hung parliament amid conservative leadership turmoil - deciding not to move into the Lodge after a colleague told him he’d “scarcely have enough time to wear a track from the backdoor to the shithouse before you’ll be out”.

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