{"id":10040,"date":"2018-08-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/pm-malcolm-turnbull-risks-an-absolute-electoral-pasting\/"},"modified":"2018-08-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T00:00:00","slug":"pm-malcolm-turnbull-risks-an-absolute-electoral-pasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/pm-malcolm-turnbull-risks-an-absolute-electoral-pasting\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Malcolm Turnbull Risks An Absolute \u2018Electoral Pasting\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Calling an early federal election in the wake of Tuesday\u2019s Liberal leadership challenge would cap a series of missteps made by Malcolm Turnbull and spell electoral disaster, <a href=\"https:\/\/matthewpantelis.livejournal.com\/2927.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">writes FIVEAA news director Matthew Pantelis<\/a>.<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u2019s been ruled out by the PM\u2019s office but if it happens, there\u2019d be no bigger example of ego and self-interest in Australian politics, guaranteeing an absolutely, rock-solid, take it to the bank, electoral pasting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wonder how many of those seven MP\u2019s splitting the pair today are reconsidering their vote?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u2018History Stalks the PM\u2019 &#8212; Read Matthew\u2019s full editorial (including Turnbull\u2019s six big mistakes) <a href=\"https:\/\/matthewpantelis.livejournal.com\/2927.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Blog: History stalks the PM <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9xwJV0pCtx\">https:\/\/t.co\/9xwJV0pCtx<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/znp5ElfpTv\">pic.twitter.com\/znp5ElfpTv<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Matthew Pantelis  (@MatthewPantelis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MatthewPantelis\/status\/1031738057324523520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 21, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calling an early federal election in the wake of Tuesday\u2019s Liberal leadership challenge would cap a series of missteps made by Malcolm Turnbull and spell electoral disaster, writes FIVEAA news director Matthew Pantelis. \u201cIt\u2019s been ruled out by the PM\u2019s office but if it happens, there\u2019d be no bigger example of ego and self-interest in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-10040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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