Plotter paid

Your taxes, Malcolm Turnbull’s payola for a plotter:

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has thrown a key supporter a lifeline, employing recently dumped MP Peter Hendy as his chief economist.

Dr Hendy was turfed out by the voters of ultra-marginal electorate Eden-Monaro at the July election, with Labor’s Mike Kelly emerging victorious and ending the seat’s famed bellwether reputation.





It was at Dr Hendy’s Queanbeyan home - a short drive from Parliament...