Sky News contributor Cory Bernardi says former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull is 'perhaps the greatest phony that we’ve seen in politics for a very long time'.
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Sky News contributor Cory Bernardi says former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull is “perhaps the greatest phony that we’ve seen in politics for a very long time”. Mr Turnbull tweeted on Sunday in support of Labor’s net zero emissions target, writing “if we don’t get there the planet will be uninhabitable for billions of people”.
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