The only way Turnbull,[return bill,] can improve his position on the benches, is if there is a spill which reinstates him? One can agree that Abbott's relentless negativity as Dr, No, will likely come back to haunt him during the next election?
Turnbull could improve his own chances of party leadership, by leaking during the election. [Not personally.] It's not to hard to 'accidentally" drop a critical document in a place where a sharp eyed political reporter can notice and pick it up. Leaks can kill off a leader?
I mean Julia was streets ahead until the leaks killed her's and labour's prospects. Clearly the little leakers put personal prospects ahead of those of the party, even if that destroyed a once great reforming socialist party.
As for Turnbull not being a moderate? It's reported he once tried to join the Labour Party? Rhrosty.

I am not sure what Turnbull actually 'stands for', he is most evident when he is going against party policy. His shadowing of communications has been singularly unimpressive.

The NBN is an area Labour is wide open on and rarely have we heard a coherent sustained attack on this policy.
Where is the furore on expending this amount of money without so much as a cost benefit analysis?
Where is the productivity commission findings?
Where is the concern for the Finklestein enquiry recommendations?
Where is the public lynching for the handling of the ABC/Sky news tender process?

Malcolm has had several gift horses look him in the mouth and appears to me to have 'gone dead' on these opportunities.

Joe is misplaced in his current portfolio and could be better utilized in more of a soft 'social' portfolio where his appeal to 'everyman' would be strong.

Communications, at this point, requires not a 'poodle' but a 'terrier' like Chris Pyne.

Being in opposition doesn't mean you are against everything. Turnbull can see projects for what they can do for the total population.
He is the far better choice for the noalition. Get rid of abbott and install Turnbull, and the coalition may gain some credibility.
The present opposition mob are in for a big shock.

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Yes Prompete, it would certainly help if we knew this.

But then, it doesn’t seem to matter to most people. What seem to matter are personalities, articulation and perceived intelligence.

Surely in order for anyone to like or dislike any particular politician, they need to have a strong idea of what political direction they think this country should be going in, what are the main things that need fixing or changing and what this pollie might do about them.

What’s good for the country should be the bottom line, not what’s good for the party at the next election. Malcolm’s article misses this, and so do all posters so far except for 579, AFAICT.

Turnbull is a neglected talent, but his skills could be used for the significant betterment of the country or the opposite, with the latter being by far the most likely.

I desire a very different political direction, full-steam straight towards a sustainable society.

I think that the two people most likely to implement this are Bob Carr and Malcolm Turnbull, which is fascinating, given that they are both highly prospective leaders of their parties and the country in the near future.

We know where Carr stands. But we don’t know where Turnbull really stands. We need to know, before we can meaningfully promote or denounce him, don’t we?

Turnbull is there to do the bidding of the banking elites.He wants a new derivative called the ETS and the Carbon Tax to drive us into abject poverty.

All you have to know about Turnbull is that the socialists think he's wonderful.