Australia has done it again. For the fourth time in a row, a serving prime minister has been deposed in an intra-party battle without completing a full election term.
Mr Malcolm Turnbull, who usurped Mr Tony Abbott as prime minister in September 2015, became the usurped last week, yielding the top job and Liberal Party leadership to Treasurer Scott Morrison.
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