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Phillip Coorey

👤 Speaker
114 total appearances

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The Briefing
Trump calls Netanyahu ‘f***ing crazy’ + The Tony Abbott revival tour

It's really an administrative role.

The Briefing
Trump calls Netanyahu ‘f***ing crazy’ + The Tony Abbott revival tour

You sort of sort out the branches and

The Briefing
Trump calls Netanyahu ‘f***ing crazy’ + The Tony Abbott revival tour

You know, say when you have an election and you commission someone to do a review into what went wrong, they sort of do those sorts of things.

The Briefing
Trump calls Netanyahu ‘f***ing crazy’ + The Tony Abbott revival tour

They sort out problems behind the scenes and, you know, clean up sort of crooked branches and these sorts of things.

The Briefing
Trump calls Netanyahu ‘f***ing crazy’ + The Tony Abbott revival tour

I think in this case the Liberal Party is in such a terrible position and it's important to note that Angus Taylor, the leader, the actual leader of the Parliamentary Party, wanted Abbott.

The Briefing
Trump calls Netanyahu ‘f***ing crazy’ + The Tony Abbott revival tour

They're sort of ideologically and philosophically aligned.

The Briefing
Trump calls Netanyahu ‘f***ing crazy’ + The Tony Abbott revival tour

And the biggest threat they face now is the One Nation threat.

The Briefing
Trump calls Netanyahu ‘f***ing crazy’ + The Tony Abbott revival tour

So, you know, they have to make a choice.

The Briefing
Trump calls Netanyahu ‘f***ing crazy’ + The Tony Abbott revival tour

They're stuck in the middle.

The Briefing
Trump calls Netanyahu ‘f***ing crazy’ + The Tony Abbott revival tour

They've been pulled to death from the left and now they're getting pulled to death from the right.

The Briefing
Trump calls Netanyahu ‘f***ing crazy’ + The Tony Abbott revival tour

It's impossible to go after both at the same time.

The Briefing
Trump calls Netanyahu ‘f***ing crazy’ + The Tony Abbott revival tour

And I think they've made a decision by bringing in Abbott that he is a foil to One Nation or the most effective foil to One Nation they have.

The Briefing
Trump calls Netanyahu ‘f***ing crazy’ + The Tony Abbott revival tour

And so that's really why he's there to take a more prominent role and sort of push back a bit at

The Briefing
Trump calls Netanyahu ‘f***ing crazy’ + The Tony Abbott revival tour

at the appeal of One Nation and as he did on Monday this week, sort of make the case that all the reasons you're going, the Liberal voters are deserting One Nation, well, the Liberal Party used to do that stuff, but they did it better, whether it's immigration or lower taxes or stuff like that.

The Briefing
Trump calls Netanyahu ‘f***ing crazy’ + The Tony Abbott revival tour

So that's really the method behind or the thinking behind this position.

The Briefing
Trump calls Netanyahu ‘f***ing crazy’ + The Tony Abbott revival tour

100%, but I think they're in this position where they don't have much to lose.

The Briefing
Trump calls Netanyahu ‘f***ing crazy’ + The Tony Abbott revival tour

Taylor, we'll be honest, just struggles to cut through, right?

The Briefing
Trump calls Netanyahu ‘f***ing crazy’ + The Tony Abbott revival tour

I mean, he took over the leadership from Susan Lee on February 14.

The Briefing
Trump calls Netanyahu ‘f***ing crazy’ + The Tony Abbott revival tour

It's, by my memory, Chris, I've been here a long time.

The Briefing
Trump calls Netanyahu ‘f***ing crazy’ + The Tony Abbott revival tour

It's the first time there's been a leadership change and no leadership