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Liberal MPs reveal how the former prime minister and his close confidante have been at the centre of a string of disastrous decisions that led to the party’s stunning election loss and the collapse of the Coalition. By Jason Koutsoukis.
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Tony Abbott was en route to Hungary to address a think tank backed by Viktor Orbán’s right-wing government when he made the call: he wanted Northern Territory Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price brought into the Liberal Party fold.
It was May 8, just days after the Coalition’s devastating election loss. From a lounge at Dubai airport, the former Liberal prime minister phoned his old parliamentary colleague Natasha Griggs – now president of the Northern Territory’s Country Liberal Party – to press his case.
As a member of the CLP, federally affiliated with both the Liberals and Nationals, Price was free to sit with either party in Canberra but had opted to sit with the Nationals after entering the Senate in 2022.
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