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Between 2013 and 2022 Tony Abbott begat Malcolm Turnbull who begat Scott Morrison For nine long years Australia was governed by a succession of Coalition governments rocked by instability and bloodletting and consumed with prosecuting climate and culture wars while neglecting policy

By the end among his detractorsand there were plentyMorrison was seen as the worst prime minister since Billy McMahon Morrison failed to accept the mantle of national leadership or to deal adequately with the challenges of natural disasters and the COVID19 pandemic He thought reform was a vanity project He said he never wanted to leave a legacy He got his wish

Niki Savva Australias renowned political commentator author and columnist was there for all of it In The Road to Ruin she revealed the ruinous behavior of former prime minister Abbott In Plots and Prayers she told the inside story of the coup that overthrew Turnbull and installed his conniving successor Morrison Now she lays out the final unravelling of the Coalition at the hands of a resurgent Labor and the socalled teal independents that culminated in the historic 2022 election With her typical access to key players and her riveting accounts of what went on behind the scenes Bulldozed is the unique final volume of an impeccably sourced political trilogy