And a huge thank you to Annabel Crabb for joining the blog tonight!

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We hope you enjoyed our companion blog. We'll be back next Monday to live blog episode 3 (which is the finale!) covering Scott Morrison, where Leigh Sales will be our special guest.

Exciting times! See you then.

Looking for more?

• Nemesis episode 1: We unpacked Tony Abbott's rise and fall as David Speers answered your political questions 
  
• Barnaby Joyce and Malcolm Turnbull reflect on how 'bonk ban' blew up their political partnership
  
• While interviewing dozens of Malcolm Turnbull's former colleagues, an intriguing theory emerged
  
• Liberal colleagues reveal inside story of Tony Abbott's brutal demise
  

Speaking with dozens of Coalition insiders during the making of the ABC docuseries Nemesis, one PM provoked the most polarised responses.

You can read more from Mark Willacy in the article below.

Too busy? Sick of talking about it?

It's interesting — the Turnbull and Morrison governments both had a lot more women in the Cabinet than the Abbott version. But I'd say easily 90 per cent of the plotting, manoeuvring, number crunching and active undermining over those years was performed by blokes.

It's interesting to note, too, that despite multiple polls showing that Julie Bishop was a popular leadership candidate for the Liberals among voters — in some, she was the most popular — Turnbull, Morrison, Abbott and Dutton all got a chance to lead, and the one female candidate never did. Seems like the "merit" system was experiencing temporary difficulty…

Anyway, stay tuned for more reflections in next week's episode on women in the Liberals…

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Our favourite game is back. So how would Malcolm Turnbull describe Scott Morrison in one word?

"Duplicitous," Turnbull says.

Roll the credits!

"Looking back at that week, it's clear to me that Morrison played a double game on the Tuesday, and that his people, six or seven we think voted for Dutton in that spill, and that made Dutton's numbers look better and increased the pressure on me," Malcolm Turnbull says.

He then calls Scott Morrison "the ultimate control freak."

Reporter and interview Mark Willacy relays the above quote to Morrison, who says "well, it's just not true."

"There were some errors in judgment in what some people did that week, and for that it unleashed a series of events that ended up in a prime minister losing the role.

"That sometimes is a harder thing to accept than the fact that someone done you in as that's just not how it happened."

"I was very proud and I am very proud of the achievements of my government," Malcolm Turnbull tells Nemesis.

"I was in office as PM for just under three years. We got a lot more done than I thought we would, to be honest.

"Snowy Hydro 2.0, big commitments on infrastructure, transpacific partnership, trade, reinvestment in the defence forces, making sure we stood up versus other big powers, whether it was Xi Jinping's China, or even Donald Trump's America."

Luke Howarth says witnessing another party leader be toppled was "distressing."

"I remember just sort of leaving the room and just sobbing a bit, really."

Ann Sudmalis says it was a "horrible week."

Linda Reynolds says it unleashed "a lot of blood and hell" on the party.

As Craig Kelly puts it:

"The greatest tragedy was that we were just like Labor."

"Well, immediately, you feel a great humility. I'd prayed for peace and calm, and it had come," Scott Morrison tells Nemesis.

According to Josh Frydenberg: "Well, I remember going back with Scott to his office and he said to me, 'Well Josh, you're now the deputy. You get to choose your portfolio. What is it?'

"And I said, I want to be Treasurer. He said done."

There are a bunch of reasons why Julie Bishop was knocked out of the leadership ballot so early on. Here's how Annabel Crabb explained it in her 2018 analysis when Bishop resigned.

One is that she was judged as too similar factionally and in her social policy views to Malcolm Turnbull; so much so that electing her would invite more destabilising from the "insurgents".

Another was that strategists among the moderates actively organised against her, fearful that she would come second in the Dutton/Morrison/Bishop race and turn the final vote into a Bishop/Dutton ballot, which they feared she would lose.

Back to Nemesis now, where Ann Sudmalis, who was a Liberal MP from 2013 until 2019, said she voted for Bishop.

"I was stunned when her count was so small, and I think she was too," she said.

"Well it's very simple," Christopher Pyne says.

"Politics is a numbers game. 'The ruthless arithmetic of politics' I think John Howard described it as."

Russell Broadbent says Bishop "went out in the first ballot with only 11 votes, which was totally humiliating for her."

"They smashed her, they didn't just break her, they smashed her. And it was predatory in the way they did it."