Turnbull; a detestable traitor.

“standing above the fray of Australian politics”? Then what was he doing in politics? He was just wasting our time and wrecking the Liberal party. A disgusting man. The sooner he is forgotten the better.

It's easy to see you are no fan of Malcolm. And have been hard pressed in a determined character assassination to make some of the post knifings of Malcolm, justified/stick?

The conservatives on the far right of the political spectrum like those who tried to infiltrate the nats and failed? Have not only, never ever liked Malcolm but every moderate small L liberal inside the party.

Which was when first founded by Mr Menzies, composed of like-minded folk mostly from the moderate middle.

The ones the alt-right have used as their coat tails to slid on/win power and then retain at any cost?

Little wonder this author is busy trying to denigrate and impugn Malcolm as he tries to "create" a halfway decent excuse for knifing Malcolm. Just not quite inventive enough, I believe, to carry it off.

F for fail!

Try much much harder next time and perhaps go back to his boyhood years to find some character trait, not to your personal liking?

Of course, he had an ego and was certain in his political convictions, and was only weakened by trying to appease and failing to cater to the whim and caprice of the mad hatter's tea party on the far/alt-right.

And the latter almost honour bound to shoot a once great party in the foot on the eve of another election?

The message you want to sell is not the one we the people and small L libs want to hear!

The one you need to sell is the one you never ever listen to as you march to the beat of a very different drum from that of ordinary Australians, you know those folk you are so busy-busy dividing for the sole purpose of winning government and ruling by divine right.

Far out. Right?
Alan B.

I seem to remember Malcolm standing by his mate Bill Henson photographing young girls naked. Art of course to the leftie while porn to everyone else.

Runner: We are born naked and as the creator made us! Does that then make God a leftie as well? I mean all the other primates have a fur coat! Even if their genitals are out there exposed for all with eyes, to see.

Only a conflicted, hiding in plain sight, paedophile, I believe, would see an innocent child's, tastefully posed for modesty, body as somehow pornographic?

And given the fact you seem to tells us much more about the real runner than where Malcolm was standing at any particular point?

That aside the only nudes that I like are those of adult women minus silicone or the after effects of shavers.

I don't know what that makes me save a red-blooded, normal adult male! I also like sexually assertive women not afraid or challenged by making the first move or role reversal or by displaying a very visible camel toe.

Time we got over ourselves and our visible reactions to adult erotica. Which is an entirely different kettle of fish from pornography?
Alan B.

This is certainly a personal attack on Turnbull by the author.

Where the author claims that the offing of Turnbull was a:

"conspiracy hatched by a group of thugs who then harass and bully their colleagues into voting against" Turnbull.

the author is quite correct.