Keywords: Malcolm Turnbull
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AUSTRALIA
- Moira Rayner
- 15 September 2011
21 Comments
I'm not worried about Gillard's abysmal rating in polls. I'm not convinced anyone but journalists and backbiters have any real desire to roll her. There is no obvious alternative to Gillard as Labor leader, but there is an obvious need for a party which stands for something.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 27 September 2010
6 Comments
Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull's past faults and misdemeanours have been forgotten and they have been charged with new responsibilities at the heart of Australia's domestic and international futures. The new leaders must wish their vanquished colleagues great success. But not too much.
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AUSTRALIA
- Adrian Phoon
- 26 July 2010
2 Comments
Malcolm Turnbull recently compared Kevin Rudd to the Shakespearean character Coriolanus, a reviled control freak. Politicians sometimes invoke Shakespeare to flatter their own cause. But
this is fraught with dangers:
they can come off sounding pompous, or their analogies
may backfire.
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AUSTRALIA
- Scott Stephens
- 12 January 2010
6 Comments
Opposition presents the Liberal Party with a rare opportunity to recover its conservative soul and abandon Labor's vapid brand of politics. The only way forward is for the Party to replace Malcolm Turnbull with Tony Abbott as its leader. August 2009
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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 01 December 2009
4 Comments
The Liberal Party now contains deeper and wider ideological
divisions than the Labor Party. This will be true regardless of who
emerges as leader today. The question is whether the party can survive such deep differences without fragmenting.
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INFORMATION
- John Ryan
- 30 November 2009
2 Comments
Turnbull has forced his party to see thereis no way forward without serious internal reform. Maybe he will not beable to lead them on, but while lesser members seem blinded byseemingly irrational caution, Turnbull has called the game with ablinding clarity.
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AUSTRALIA
- Scott Stephens
- 25 August 2009
23 Comments
Opposition presents the Liberal Party with a rare opportunity to recover its conservative soul and abandon Labor's vapid brand of politics. The only way forward is for the Party to replace Malcolm Turnbull with Tony Abbott as its leader.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 29 July 2009
7 Comments
Hockey, a big friendly bear of a man, is popular in the electorate. Abbott suffers from his aggressive stance and his image as a conservative Catholic. Both are contenders for the Liberal leadership should Turnbull fall before the next
federal election.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 08 July 2009
3 Comments
Years ago, a trout fisherman with 'irresistible' bait was outsmarted by a flock of pelicans. Like a punter with unshakeable conviction, Malcolm Turnbull also learned the hard way that there's no such thing as a dead certainty.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Jonathan Shaw
- 03 July 2009
2 Comments
The great wave of Utegate has passed over us, leaving Malcolm Turnbull
on the sands, chastened but apparently unrepentant, and far from
exhausted. Reports
of his political death are manifestly exaggerated.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael McVeigh
- 30 June 2009
3 Comments
The biggest casualty in the Ozcar affair appears to be Malcolm Turnbull, whose
approval rating has plummeted. Turnbull is learning that a politician's job security isn't just tied
to their ability to play politics. It's also
linked to their character.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 16 June 2009
6 Comments
What can Malcolm Turnbull's place among Australia's richest 200 people tell us about wealth and politics? First and most obviously, that the extremely wealthy almost always get involved on the conservative side.
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