Tag: Turnbull

Turnbull’s Refugee Resolve to be Tested?

You bet it will be. Country shoppers and human traffickers are not stupid. They are well aware of Turnbull’s political profile and will most certainly have a go.

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Editorial – Turnbull’s Biggest Challenge

A lot of people are still feeding over the carcass of the coup: how it happened, when it started, who did what and when. The inevitable ‘Turnbull’s biggest challenge is to unite the party’ talk has also started. While these issues deserve some investigation and analysis, we really should be focusing on something far more important for Turnbull.

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Editorial – Tony Abbott’s Prime Ministerial Obituary

Never accepted and never going to be

Rightly or wrongly, the public never warmed to Tony Abbott and were never going to. His unpopularity was simply terminal. Even his own party never really accepted him as leader. There is even the famous rumour that senior Liberals told an ambitious Abbott during the Howard years, ‘sorry Tony, we just don’t see you as Prime Minister material’. With that, politics was never going to end up being kind to Abbott as Prime Minister – and it wasn’t.

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Time Some Conservatives Took a Cold Shower

First up, I don’t like the fact that Malcolm Turnbull has replaced Tony Abbott.

However, long term Liberal voters claiming that they would now vote for Shorten and Labor (yes, there are quite a few) need to take a cold shower. Shorten? The man who, among countless many other things:

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