Prime minister says former ministers are entitled to express opinions or cross the floor and he and the former prime minister have had a ‘wonderful chat’Malcolm Turnbull has laughed off the conception that Tony Abbott is leading a rightwing “insurgency” against him,saying former ministers were entitled to express opinions or cross the floor and he and the former prime minister had had a “wonderful chat”.
A group of conservative former ministers and some current ministers have been dubbed “the resistance”, with both Abbott and former defence minister Kevin Andrews calling for a greater military contribution from Australia in the fight against Isis, and former workplace relations minister Senator Eric Abetz crossing the floor on Thursday to vote for a crossbench motion calling for students to have a say approximately whether they paid union fees.
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Source: theguardian.com