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United Turnbull govt can survive: Howard

Former prime minister John Howard says there's no reason the Turnbull one-seat majority government can't survive in the same way the Menzies government did.

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Former prime minister John Howard believes if the Turnbull government is disciplined and united it can survive, despite holding a one-seat majority.

Asked to compare the current government to the one-seat majority government under Sir Robert Menzies, Mr Howard pointed out the latter's greatest asset was the coalition was "superbly disciplined behind an understandable, well-articulated agenda".

"There is no reason why the government, the current government can't survive three years," he told the National Press Club in Canberra on Wednesday.


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