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What does this mean?



Well here’s the short version. In the space of 24 hours, Malcolm Turnbull has gone from complete capitulation to full frontal confrontation.

Turnbull called on the spill because he believed he had the numbers. He was right. He won 48 to 35.



But once you call these things on, you wear the results. Turnbull, and everyone in the government, now knows there are 35 people who no longer support his leadership of the Liberal party.



And the voters of Australia know their government is in the grip of a poisonous civil war.

