Modern Australian

Abbott and Turnbull shape up for another round of an old battle

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

The Coalition party room on Tuesday is set for a high stakes, quite personal battle between Tony Abbott and Malcolm Turnbull over the National Energy Guarantee, with former and current prime ministers shaping up on Monday.

In an all-out attack ahead of the crucial meeting, Abbott denounced the NEG as “seriously bad policy”, declaring...