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Speaker 1: From The Australian. Here's what's on the front. I'm christinamiot.

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Speaker 1: It's Monday, November three, twenty five. Anthony Albernizi says his

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Speaker 1: party's major policies will be squared away by January one.

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Speaker 1: The Prime Minister will prioritize universal childcare, environmental reform and

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Speaker 1: changes to Medicare in the final sitting weeks of the year,

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Speaker 1: following his longest absence from Parliament in his thirty year career.

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Speaker 1: The PM's exclusive interview with senior political reporter Sarah Eisen

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Speaker 1: is live right now at the Australian dot com dot au.

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Speaker 1: UK counter terrorism police are assisting with investigations after ten

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Speaker 1: passengers on a train in Cambridgeshire were stabbed on Sunday night.

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Speaker 1: Authorities arrested two people following the terrifying six minute attack,

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Speaker 1: which left all but one of the victims with life

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Speaker 1: threatening injes the Coalition would be resoundingly defeated if an

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Speaker 1: election was held tomorrow. That's according to a historic News

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Speaker 1: poll which has seen internal chaos push the Liberal and

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Speaker 1: National parties to new depths. But it's not all sunshine

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Speaker 1: and roses for the government either. Today political editor Jeff

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Speaker 1: Chambers joins me to unpack how the coalition got here

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Speaker 1: and what they do next. It's been a big few

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Speaker 1: months in Australian politics.

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Speaker 2: We recognize the legitimate, unlong held aspirations of the people

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Speaker 2: of Palestine.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you this one is they've got a great

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Speaker 1: They really have a great prime minister.

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Speaker 2: It's not really conducive to being effective for me, nor

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Speaker 2: effective for them to remain in the room.

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Speaker 1: I don't like you either, and it probably.

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Speaker 3: Never will go h It's probably not real reason that

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Speaker 3: he continue in the role, because the Shadow Home Affairs

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Speaker 3: Minister Andrew Hasty has resigned from the Liberal front bench,

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Speaker 3: declaring he can no longer remain silent on the issue

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Speaker 3: of immigration. He knew, he understood, and still he wore

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Speaker 3: the T shirt.

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Speaker 2: The National's Federal Council passing a motion to abandon support

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Speaker 2: for achieving net zero emissions.

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Speaker 3: I'm not come.

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Speaker 1: And voters, well, they're not having a bar of it.

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Speaker 2: So there's a few records broken in this newspoll that

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Speaker 2: was conducted between Monday and Thursday last week.

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Speaker 1: Jeff Chambers is The Australian's political editor.

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Speaker 2: Since the May III election, we've twice written that the

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Speaker 2: coalition's primary vote was the worst on record since primary

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Speaker 2: votes were first counted by a news poll in November

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Speaker 2: nineteen eighty five. What this poll tells us is that

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Speaker 2: the Liberals and Nationals combined coalition primary vote is down

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Speaker 2: to twenty four percent, and compared to the last poll,

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Speaker 2: that's a very sizable decrease for Susan Lee's coalition. And

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Speaker 2: when you add that to Labour's primary vote which fell

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Speaker 2: a point down to thirty six percent, that combined share

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Speaker 2: for the major parties is now only sixty percent, So

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Speaker 2: that's another record. That's the lowest combined major party primary

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Speaker 2: vote since nineteen eighty five. But it's not all great

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Speaker 2: reading for the Prime Minister. The level of dissatisfaction with

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Speaker 2: his leadership is at its highest now, so that's up

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Speaker 2: three percent to fifty one percent dissatisfied with his performance.

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Speaker 2: But obviously, in contrast to in Lee and where the

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Speaker 2: coalition is that the government would easily win an election,

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Speaker 2: the two party preferred vote is still at a very

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Speaker 2: big margin of fifty seven to forty three.

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Speaker 1: So if voters aren't behind the major parties, where have

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Speaker 1: they gone?

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Speaker 2: A lot of that coalition vote is flowing to Pauline

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Speaker 2: Hanson's One Nation. One Nation's primary vote is up to

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Speaker 2: fifteen percent, which is their highest ever and their previous

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Speaker 2: highest mark of thirteen percent was all the way back

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Speaker 2: in June nineteen ninety eight. The Other's pile, which includes

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Speaker 2: minor parties and independents, they've also risen to fourteen percent,

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Speaker 2: while the Greens have fallen one percent down to eleven.

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Speaker 2: So you're seeing vote coming off the coalition, Labor and

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Speaker 2: the Greens, and it's almost like a bit of a

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Speaker 2: protest vote, you know, we're seeing votes splattering now out

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Speaker 2: to One Nation and other minor parties and independents.

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Speaker 1: Since she was appointed leader of the Liberals in May,

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Speaker 1: Susan Lee has been trying to contain a party in

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Speaker 1: crisis on top of a historic election loss. There's been infighting,

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Speaker 1: public blowups, resignations, and policy confusion. But as we get

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Speaker 1: to the pointy end of the year, the question is

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Speaker 1: can she keep her job and can the coalition keep

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Speaker 1: traveling the same path.

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Speaker 2: Her net approval rating started off at about minus seven

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Speaker 2: immediately after the election in our first News poll in July.

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Speaker 2: That has now crashed to minus thirty three percent, So

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Speaker 2: there are only twenty five percent of voters polled who

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Speaker 2: are satisfied with her performance and fifty eight percent who

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Speaker 2: were dissatisfied. And to put that in context, Peter Dunton

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Speaker 2: was never a popular opposition leader, but this is by

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Speaker 2: far and away much worse than Peter Duttan's poorest net

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Speaker 2: approval rating, and this puts Susan Lee now into territory

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Speaker 2: of other unpopular opposition leaders. So we're talking Alexander Downer,

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Speaker 2: John Hewston, Simon Crane, Kim Bisley and Bill Shorten when

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Speaker 2: he was running pretty poorly there. They're in a pretty

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Speaker 2: poor shape right now. I mean, typically we've seen both

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Speaker 2: the major parties suffer heavy defeats, but after the collective

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Speaker 2: disasters of the twenty two and namely the twenty five election,

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Speaker 2: it's a numerical situation. There just isn't many Liberals left

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Speaker 2: in the building and a lot of the more talented

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Speaker 2: liberal MPs have lost their seats at the last two elections,

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Speaker 2: so it's a bit of a talent pool issue. We're

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Speaker 2: about to enter the second final parliamentary sitting week of

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Speaker 2: the year, and famously this period in Australian politics has

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Speaker 2: become known as the killing season. And while there is

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Speaker 2: no sort of coordinated war room or obvious candidate that's emerging,

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Speaker 2: the effect of this news poll could actually see that

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Speaker 2: back room chattering progress to something a bit more organized

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Speaker 2: and Susan Lee has a lot to navigate. The National

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Speaker 2: Party has come out and opposed net zero by twenty fifty.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of divided opinion in the Liberal party

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Speaker 2: room as to what position they'll take, so that net

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Speaker 2: zero piece, that energy policy piece, and most importantly keeping

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Speaker 2: the show together because ever since the Male election, you'd

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Speaker 2: expect some in fighting, some differences of opinion, but this

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Speaker 2: has now run for a long period of time where

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Speaker 2: almost every week you'll hear a senior Liberal MP or

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Speaker 2: National MP seemingly undermining their leader. And we've seen that

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Speaker 2: in the last fortnight and I think that she's very

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Speaker 2: much now in his zone where she has to probably

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Speaker 2: be a bit bolder and make decisions a bit faster

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Speaker 2: than she thought she'd have to.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, do you think a poll like this adds a

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Speaker 1: layer of inevitability to recent moves made by opposition figures

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Speaker 1: like Barnaby Joyce, who said that his place in the

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Speaker 1: Nationals party room is untenable. And Andrew Hasty and just

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Speaker 1: Into NumPy and for Price, who've both quit the front

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Speaker 1: bench despite being touted as possible future leaders at various points.

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Speaker 2: I think the departures of just Into their Juniper Price

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Speaker 2: and Andrew Hasty were very damaging for Susan Lee. I

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Speaker 2: think Barnaby Joyce is on another level. He's as much

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Speaker 2: more of a personality conflict with David Little Proud and

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Speaker 2: his disillusionment with the National Party. But for those young

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Speaker 2: up and coming Liberal MPs and senator in Senator Price,

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Speaker 2: that is not a good early sign. I think it's

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Speaker 2: the job of the leader to be able to bring

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Speaker 2: together orring factions and tribes and get everyone on the

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Speaker 2: same page. And if you can't do that, ultimately that

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Speaker 2: pressure is going to build and any mistake you make,

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Speaker 2: or any mistake it becomes more and more of a

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Speaker 2: focal point in terms of the threat to her leadership.

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Speaker 1: Coming up. The MPs are back in town, but the

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Speaker 1: mood is far from celebratory. This is, as you said,

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Speaker 1: the second last sitting week of the year. How much

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Speaker 1: attention are the major parties paying to polls like this

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Speaker 1: one and are they worried about it or should they be?

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Speaker 2: I think that publicly you'll hear plenty politicians on Monday

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Speaker 2: coming out and saying poles come, poles go. The historic

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Speaker 2: nature of this pole and those record lows for the

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Speaker 2: coalition can't be ignored. And internally behind closed doors, this

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Speaker 2: is certainly going to be a point of conversation, and

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Speaker 2: the interesting aspect we will see to be whether it

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Speaker 2: goes from disenchantment with the direction of the Liberal Party

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Speaker 2: under Susan Lee to whether there is any organization against

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Speaker 2: Susan Lee heading into that final parliamentary week of the year.

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Speaker 2: The flip side of the argument is Susan Lee is

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Speaker 2: the first female Liberal leader. She hasn't had that long

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Speaker 2: to have a crack. We've got a long summer break

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Speaker 2: coming up, and then we head towards a May budget

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Speaker 2: where she would have an opportunity to do a budget reply.

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Speaker 2: So the feeling had been to date that Susan Lee

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Speaker 2: would be given time. But if she can't recover that

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Speaker 2: position and the polling shows that support keeps dripping away

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Speaker 2: from the coalition, the leadership will come into question.

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Speaker 1: Jeff Chambers is the Australian's Political editor. You can read

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Speaker 1: his in depth analysis of this historic Newspole result, plus

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Speaker 1: all the nation's best news, sports, politics and business right

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