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Eric Abetz demands Julie Bishop explain staffer’s presence at coup meeting – politics live
As the PM leaves for his first major overseas trip, Tasmanian Senator Eric Abetz has demanded Bishop explain why her chief of staff was at a meeting of Turnbull supporters on the weekend before Tony Abbott was dumped. Follow the day’s news live …
Peter Hendy has been doorstopped on the way into parliament, which is sitting at 9am. Hendy holds the bellwether seat, Eden-Monaro and is now the assistant minister for productivity. So his house was handy to Canberra for a meeting the night before a sitting day …
• Chris Harries in Comments: Gee, how the mighty fall. Totally absorbed in rancour and recrimination. He was so full of confidence and belligerence whilst he had status. Can’t Eric see how he’s just looking like a really poor loser who can’t let go? Everybody else has moved on…. save perhaps for his close mate Cory Bernardi.