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Well what did you expect? Turnbull's leadership style grates

Lyrics by Turnbull quoted in Annabel Crabb's essay Stop at Nothing: the life and times of Malcolm Turnbull

To all intents and purposes Malcolm Turnbull's leadership style is decimating the Liberal Party of Australia. Well, what did you expect?

He took a wrecking ball to the Australian Republican Movement in 1998 and 1999 and it is still trying to recover almost ten years on.

After a disastrous national referendum result in 1999, Turnbull waited nine months and then resigned as chair of that organisation, with the rather amusing line in hindsight: Well I doubt whether I'll be remembered in the history books at all.

Oh, I think you will be remembered Mr. Turnbull - your name will probably be written in blood on the pages of future party histories.
Because the reputedly distant to vicious, alternatively overbearing or dictatorial "Bad Malcolm" always seems to win out over the "Good Malcolm".

You know you're a politcal tragic when.....

A fishing mate of mine wryly reckons you know you're a political tragic when you rush home (as he did), break out the gourmet crackers and antipasto, pour yourself a monster claret and switch on the radio for the last House of Reps Question Time this year (while keeping one eye cocked on the Senate strutting across the tube at 2pm yesterday).

Just goes to show that today's pollies are showmen not statesmen and we're beginning to treat them as entertainment.

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Ozcar affair wet-fish slaps Turnbull in the face yet again

The Australian Senate Privileges Committee's recently published 139 page report Matters arising from the Economics Legislation Committee Hearing on 19 June 2009 only highlights again that the less than transparent performances of Liberal pollies Senator Eric Abetz and Leader of the Opposition Malcolm Turnbull were politically dishonest and manipulative.
"Truffles" was lucky that the Senate's convention on inquiries prohibits calling House of Reps MPs to give evidence on anything except policy and administration and barred commenting on his conduct in relation to the Ozcar affair.