Yes Chris, and one only need listen to the potential new Prime Minister of Britain to understand that another round of austerity is the last thing they need now, nor an ideologue with fixed ideas and no imagination placed in charge. Ditto Australia!

They to their credit seemed to have selected someone who doesn't view the poor and downtrodden from ivory towers and rose colored glasses. And the best chance to reunite a fractured party and a divided nation.

Some (Australian) conservatives think that it's all about them and optimising the unearned privileges they enjoy? And to hell with the neighbor the country and the national interest!?

Well those days are gone, never ever to return. Off course there will still need to be a contest of ideas and they need not only be tested at the ballot box but implemented by the party winning that contest! If you aren't up to it don't try to sell it!

In the interim Labor should be much more cooperative in the senate as bipartisan partners of good common ground national interest policy rather than wreckers who in effect, give more electoral oxygen to malevolent mischievous minorities?

There must be some common ground they can agree on like the need for genuine tax reform even where that reform may harm a sectional interest, welded to a honey pot that works entirely against the real national interest!

These people would better serve the national interest as franchise holders in a new peoples' bank and charged with facilitating and financing new cooperative enterprise? And thereby eliminating to two basic reasons why most new startups fail! Lack of sufficient capital and inadequate management skills!
Alan B.

People are of course 'unwilling' to take cuts in welfare and their standard of living. But the fools have been loving beyond their means, and it is time for them to face reality. We need politicians who can get the message across, and Turnbull is that sort of politician. "Winning stragedy" my eye!