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Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says he hopes the appointment of Malcolm Turnbull as communications spokesman will help convince key independent MPs to dump Labor and switch sides.
Mr Abbott is foreshadowing his tactics for the coming months after yesterday revealing a frontbench line-up which he described as "hungry" to hold the minority Government to account.
He has flagged the Government's broadband policy - one of the areas crucial in swinging at least one independent towards supporting Labor - as a major battleground over the next 18 months.
Mr Turnbull has now been brought back to the frontbench as communications spokesman and has been told by Mr Abbott to "demolish" Labor's broadband policy.
- By Gus Leonisky at 15 Sep 2010 - 1:00pm
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Australian Federal Police are investigating threats made against Independent MP Rob Oakeshott ahead of a planned public meeting at Port Macquarie on the New South Wales mid-north coast.
The meeting, called by the local newspaper in Mr Oakeshott's seat of Lyne, has been cancelled.
The MP says feelings are running high in some parts of his electorate after his deal with Labor to form a minority government.
"They are those borderline ones where you just don't know whether they are people venting their views on the decisions that have been taken over the last two weeks or whether there is something a bit more malicious," he said.
"But in the end I think everyone is erring on the side of caution and for all the right reasons."
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/09/15/3012097.htm?section=justin