Turnbull says if he gets the letter with the number of signatures on it Dutton says he has, he will call a party room
meeting tomorrow. That's the meeting, on Dutton's request, that Turnbull refused to call this morning. Turnbull is
giving a press conference now. He's looking surprisingly cheery actually, and handling the situation very well.
In his first words he rightly condemned the whole shady affair.
Apparently numbers people are saying there could be one vote in it.
Heh, Turnbull apparently has just managed to beat Gough Whitlam's time as PM by one day. Today.
It would be an incredible get-out if this right-wing conservative coup failed. A coup which,
of course, has been encouraged and supported by Rupert Murdoch's media interests.
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”