Scott Morrison is going to need people skills to govern after Wentworth | Tony Windsor

Chaos in a minority government will not come from the independents, it will be from inside the Liberal party

The Wentworth byelection has almost certainly resulted in Scott Morrison governing with a minority.

Many commentators will view this through the prism of instability, potential chaos and uncertainty. That can be the case, it may even sell newspapers but it doesn’t necessarily mean chaos will happen.

Having been in two hung parliaments and another with a majority of one, half of my 22 years as an MP were spent around governments who did not have a convincing majority.

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