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Is Abbott starting to feel the heat!

Climate Spectator

Rob Burgess

Now that the 18 bills constituting the government's Clean Energy Futures package have entered the gladiatorial pit we call the House of Representatives, the frailty of Tony Abbott's political future is becoming more clear. 

While he stands with shield and sword ready in that sandy arena, Malcolm Turnbull sits high in the Emperor's box eating grapes and wondering, "shall I speak or shan't I?" His late scratching from the parliamentary debate yesterday was a delay in any open hostility against the man who deposed him, but it does not rule it out. 

Turnbull will, at some point, stretch out one arm, his thumb hovering in a horizontal position, before surveying the chanting crowd and turning said appendage up or down. Whether or not he speaks on the carbon package, he is not a man to be silenced outside the chamber. A Turnbull verdict could come at any time. Read more.....