Turnbull has just failed his 29th poll. I don't expect that we will see him stabbed in the back after by he fails the next one, as he stabbed Abbott; there are too many Leftist rats in the ranks now.

Australia has arrived at a really dark place when the only way we can rid ourselves or the worst Liberal leader since Malcolm (could be the name?) Fraser is to vote for the unspeakable Shorten-led Labor party. James Allan has always said that we have to endure Labor again to get the Liberals to sort themselves out. But, can we do that, with the inevitable opening up of our borders to illegal arrivals again and the economic ruin that will follow a Labor victory.

Malcolm Turnbull doesn't feel the pressure to hide his
intellect beneath a facade of blokiness or to manufacture
a false common touch. It's not demanded of him. His party
has given him the job because it knows the population
wants the Prime Ministership restored to a place of genuine
intellectual standing. Mr Turnbull is capable of honest and
open conversations and won't settle for turgid mantras.
He's a leader who could be described as an optimistic moderate
and surely for most people that's a welcome change.

Bill Shorten on the other hand has nothing good to say about
anything. Mr Abbott was a sloganeer, "We have stopped the
boats," "We have stopped the boats," " We have stopped the boats."
This became grating and hard to bear. People stopped listening.
Also his obsession with Britain got a bit much - and the Prince
Philip fiasco - was the final straw. Voters saw that this was
not a leader for the 21st Century. He was taking us backwards.

Malcolm Turnbull was a successful lawyer and businessman - voters
had no doubts about his economic management abilities. He scored
the keys to the lodge. However its now substance that will keep
him there.

However lets not forget that John Howard and Robert Menzies
resurrected their political career and took the Liberals to
victory after being ousted. We shall have to wait and see whether
Mr Turnbull can do the same.

As you know FOXY I'm no student of Oz politics - moreover I loath 'backstabbers' the police force were full of 'em. However I'm now wondering whether Malcolm TURNBULL Is in fact a breath of fresh air, with his intellectual application to his Office. Yet education alone doesn't confer intellectualism neither? Tony ABBOTT is well educated. My problem being I suppose, is (still) how he attained that office, that's my worry? In a word 'trust'?

Dear O Sung Wu,

Just a reminder. It was Turnbull who won the leadership of
the Liberal Party in September 2008 and became Leader of the
then Opposition. It was Tony Abbott (in 2009) who led a
leadership challenge and defeated Turnbull by a single vote.

Then on 14 September 2015 when there was consistently poor
opinion polling for the Government - Turnbull resigned from
the Cabinet and decided to challenge Abbott - thereby
RECLAIMING the leadership of the party by 10 votes.

Turnbull was sworn in as PM the following day.

The rest as the say is history.

Talking about "Trust" Mr Abbott initially promised that he'd
not wreck things for the Government. As we know he hasn't
kept his promise and has done everything in his power to
undermine both his party, the government and certainly Mr
Turnbull. Hopefully this man will get kicked out of his
electorate at the next election. He's the one who can't be
trusted!

tbbn,

"And you will not stop that with your sending messages about what your heart feels, mhaze."

I've never been a big fan of voting for the least worst candidate. That thinking just leads us to getting charismatic incompetence like Rudd and Turnbull.

I agree that we're headed for a deep hole under Shorten. But we're headed there under the current Lib leadership as well, just more slowly. My view is the quicker we get in the hole the quicker we can start to work our way out. But that will only happen under a truly conservative Liberal party, not the Labor-lite party we are currently saddled with.

So give the Libs a thorough thrashing and force them to return to their conservative roots. In the meantime let Shorten and his mates wreak havoc that'll remind all of what Labor really is about. Then by the mid 2020s we can start to rebuild the nation that bequeathed by the Hawke/Howard years.

Reporters are not doing their jobs. Today, on 'The World Today' they allowed the PM to laugh off the reference to his 29th straight poll loss with a wild claim that he had created 420,000 jobs. They didn't ask him what these jobs were or why unemployment figures are not coming down, thanks to all the jobs he claims to have created. There is something seriously wrong with a man who cannot see that he would be winning polls, not losing them hand over fist, if he was as good as he thinks he is.