For Mr Abbott to come back from here is going to be seen as fake, I really believe he has blown any chance of becoming PM.
All the down talking of our economy, and his scrounging the depths of slime pits has set a terrible precedent.
The coalition have taken politics to an all-time low, so much so they have forgotten to formulate policy.
Women in power are a very sore point, which he can't get over.
What do we look at when voting, policy, attitude, representation, intelligence, fairness, unbiased, everything comes into play before voting, and the political leaders play a crucial role in the voting.
2013 is set to be exciting, in the world of Australian politics

Could anyone imagine Turbull at a Union Barbeque? I can't.

Turnbull is the epitome of the very small group of monied elite who, it must be said, are controlling most of the world at his point in time and exploiting it on a massive scale.

The world doesn't need political leadership derived from the Unions or the Monied Elite or the Legal profession. What we want are intelligent people who are honest and filled with integrity and compassion, people who will govern in the best interests of the majority of voters.

Does anyone know any folk who would fit this specification?

There is obviously an edict from the top of the labor party to attempt to undermine Abbott. As we can see here, all the useful little idiots have been called in to promote the message.

It probably won't work too well, the public are wising up to it. To day many only need to read the first sentence or two to see the push for what it is, & stop reading.

That there is no such movement from the Libs only shows that Labor require no help in undermining themselves.

Any thinking person could not help to see the concerted campaign over many years, to overcome the "honest John" title Howard had earned. All the nothing people making snide remarks.

They used it again to try to prop up the global warming scam. Nothing academics, obviously instructed to lend their doubtful support, bursting into print all over.

Now, after the misogynist campaign against Abbott was successful only within the brethren, they are trying to promote Turnbull, with puff pieces like this. Well sorry love, you'll have to get up earlier in the morning, & do a better job to get anywhere with this stuff. Most people have seen that Turnbull is just a paper cut out of Rudd, only not as cunning.

We need Turnbull like a large hole in the head, & we ain't buying.

A boringly middle or the road article about boringly middle of the road politicians, Turnbull and Rudd. Everything in the middle.

The average Australian voter has a warm affinity with that - being boringly in the middle. It's no wonder the punters like both of them. Nothing too challenging. No passion. No vision. Nothing with any dynamic. Nothing to ever get excited or worried about. Just steady in the middle. Let's have more of that.

Why not have Turnbull and Rudd for co-presidents of the Republic of Australia! What a great idea. A sort of liberal social democratic communism. No freedom and no oppression, just make sure everything is regulated and controlled so everything and everybody stays in the middle.

I imagine Turnbull and Rudd's platform would be to urge gently for more blandness, ordinariness and political correctness, whilst governing with a ministry of fellow chubby, moon-faced, under-whelming, bureaucratic underachievers. I imagine the greater middle class of solid bourgeois Aussies would be agreeable to that too. Then everything in Australia could be 'nice' and in the middle.

Once Turnbull and Rudd were up and moving forward, they could cut down all those tall poppy achievers, flog dole-bludger failures and sink all those invading leaky boat people. That lot are un-Australian. Those people refuse to stay compliant, fat, dumb and happy in the middle like everybody else. There's no place for that sort in Australia, comrade.

Yep, Turnbull and Rudd, popularly in the middle. Good luck folks.

Google tells us about Malcolm Turnbull that "1987: Leaves the law profession, creating an investment banking firm with Neville Wran and Nicholas Whitlam, Whitlam Turnbull & Co Ltd."

This from the SMH "The rise and rise of Malcolm Turnbull" September 16, 2008.

Malcolm is reported to have been good friends with the Whitlams, and also saw Neville Wran as a mentor. I would have thought that this gives him at least some Labor credentials.

Yes, Turnbull has style, and intelligence, is well spoken and presentable, and most of all is nothing like Abbott...
That's good enough for me :)