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They went through hell, and feared when it was over that they would not make it back — and nor would the Liberal Party. She is also the former senior advisor to Prime Minister John Howard. Born in a small village in Cyprus, Niki Savva spent her childhood in Melbourne’s working-class suburbs — frontiers where locals were suspicious of olive oil, and Greek kids spoke Gringlish to their parents.

In 2010 she began writing political columns for The Australian. How it escaped the editor’s pen four times is beyond me. Abbott’s performances in the party-room debates on education and climate change had ranged between woeful and pathetic. 83 more messages in How the heart aches for them. For all of her insider access and intelligence, that is, Savva was seemingly oblivious to the fact that members of the increasingly radical hard right of the Liberal Party were not merely hostile to Turnbull — they hated him with a burning passion, and they would not rest until they had cast him out of their party for good.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Niki Savva is an Australian journalist, author, and former senior adviser to Prime Minister John Howard and Treasurer Peter Costello. He was a barrister who could argue the brief for either side.” This didn’t prevent Dutton from serving as one of Turnbull’s most senior ministers for almost three years, but political ambition has got people through much more difficult moral quandaries than this.

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Now Savva continues where she left off. I do not believe any of her Leftish crap. “I am not the evangelical here, not out-and-proud on abortion.

In spite of her own Labor convictions, she became Liberal treasurer Peter Costello’s press secretary, a role that she kept for six years before moving on to join John Howard’s staff. In an enthralling sequel to her bestselling The Road to Ruin, Niki Savva reveals the inside story of a bungled coup that overthrew the Liberal prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, and installed a surprise successor, Scott Morrison, who went on to take the party to a miraculous electoral victory. In 2010 Savva published So Greek: Confessions of a Conservative Leftie, a memoir of her life in journalism and politics, and an exercise in name-dropping that would make Greg Sheridan blush. All Rights Reserved. Savva is so close to her subjects she is unable to perceive their actions clearly, and thus could not see that Turnbull’s prime ministership was doomed from the beginning.

With some astute editing — eliminating page upon page of repetition, and the numerous run-on sentences filled with irrelevant details — its length could have been reduced by a third. Therefore your book meets the defamation to a former prime minister Tony Abbott and his advisory …