It is true that Turnbull is 'popular' according to polls; but he is only more 'popular' than the the alternative, Shorten, and that's nothing to be be particularly proud of. Turnbull's 'popularity' stems comes from the Left (and Turnbull is a Leftist) - people who will still vote Labor irrespective of their despair of Shorten. Only 3-5% of voters change parties, and their are two options now for conservative voters who do not like Turnbull and what he did to Abbott. So, Turnbull's 'popularity' has to be severely discounted. As for Abbott, he is out of the picture; but the next election might very well see his resurrection. If Turnbull, as PM carries on the the way he does now, it will be curtains for any Coalition government led by him.

It won't be curtains for the Coalition under
Malcolm Turnbull. The man is not going to
be making changes too quickly and he will
be consultative with his party members.
Unlike his predecessor. Turnbull also has
a good team. And he listens. He wants to put
our nation on the global map. And he will
be very conscious of not making the same
mistakes. H will be able to sell his policies
and programs - because he won't keep things
a secret - people will be informed.
That surely can't be a bad thing.

don't think it matters who is leader of the libs because the mountain they propose to somehow climb is an impossible dream.

While you may say most people approach life in an optimistic way foxy, ones wants and desirers should be achievable otherwise they are simply dreams.

MT says we are in great times to be an Ozzie and we can innovate. How? And with what?

We have the highest wages in our region and we have no money for infrastructure as we cant pay off our debts.

You should also remember the additional mouths we are now feeding and caring for from rudds stuff up and, we have new arrivals who also need to be catered for.

Dear rehctub,

The first step to achieving anything is positive
thought. And Malcolm Turnbull is offering us
positive thought.

Being negative on everything and spreading fear,
creates more negativity and a tendency to
give up instead of trying to overcome or look
for solutions. So let us hope that Malcolm
Turnbull's outlook to the future will be
beneficial to our nation.

Maybe we need China to invade sooner than later.

I've been trying to adopt a policy of not responding to the moron-brigade that lurks herein. Let them make their insane, fact-free ascertains. There's no point trying to give them the facts since facts are the last thing they want to hear.

But this...
this takes the cake.

Foxy "Even John Howard wasn't keen on Abbott and didn't trust him."

Its wrong to say that's wrong. Wrong is when someone says the sun rises in the west. But this from Foxy is pure unadulterated bollocks, taking all the known facts and not only ignoring them but completely reversing them.

Its basically adopting the view that, since I don't like Abbott, anything that I can dream-up must be valid.

I won't try to provide Foxy with any of the myriad examples where (s)he's wrong because (s)he's not interested in that. Suffice to say that this statement from Foxy make Mr O's ravings seem sober and considered.

Fair dinkum.