Informit article: Illiberal liberalism

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Abstract:

The last six years of Coalition govern ment have been a period of unprecedented chaos and malignity. If the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd years were The Killing Season, then the Abbott- Turnbull-Morrison years are/were The Hunger Games: a rolling spectacle of bizarre ordeals, frenzied bouts of fratricide, and cruelty raised to the level of art. Towards the end-for surely we are approaching the end-one almost expected to see the faces of toppled and departing politicians projected onto the inside of the Canberra bubble: cannons, music…Christopher Pyne. Even Liberals must be secretly praying for deliverance. This isn’t an election. It’s an intervention.

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