Given the Turnbull-created mess Australia is in, it would grossly irresponsible to have an early election. I believe that if Turnbull tried going to the GG to get an election, he could be refused and forced to resign. So, who ever takes over the leadership from Turnbull must, to turn the Liberal party back to relevance, undertake to do the following, at the very least:

Cut back immigration drastically.
Quit the Paris accord.
Bring the very expensive, biased ABC to book.
Deal with the AHRC, and dump Section 44.
Ensure reliable, reasonably priced electricity and gas.
Remove multiculturalism as an official policy.
Remove Bishop, Pyne, Morrison, Birmingham, Freydenberg from the front bench.

Dear Hasbeen,

Now don't go all revisionist on us now young fella.

When Howard took power the immigration levels were around 60,000. His drive for a 'big Australia' one that was pushed by his big business mates saw migration levels explode. By the time he was finally turfed out they had tripled. The first decreases were implemented under Rudd then Gillard. As soon as Abbott got in off they went again.

As I have repeatedly stated I would halve rates tomorrow even though I recognise it would probably cause a recession. I would also double our miserly refugee intake but that is another story.

Fact, they can be rather inconvenient sometimes.

Cory Bernadi describes the Liberal government as a “low budget” horror film using the same script as the performances of the three dysfunctional Labor governments – complete with “C grade actors”. Labor has one advantage: it knows what it stands for, whereas the Liberal party stands for nothing since Turnbull's defenestration of Tony Abbott and the very party itself

SR,

I'm not sure where you got your numbers from but they're wrong.

From Dept of Home Affairs site:

1983 (start Hawke) 93,011
1996 (start Howard) 104,551
2007 (start Rudd) 205,940
2013 (start Abbott) 247,233
2015 (start Turnbull) 220,434
last year 225,941

"Fact, they can be rather inconvenient sometimes."

Out of the mouths of babes.

Did anyone catch Judas kissing Jesus today? Morrison gave Turnbull a big hug in public, then the Romans carted Jesus off for Crucifixion on Friday.

Turnball's must be so happy he has such good friends in politics. What about the conga line of Turnbull traitors, aka Liberal Ministers, who voted against the bloke yesterday, but stood up in parliament today one by one, and without any sincerity pledged their support for their beleaguered leader. On Friday the same bunch of turn coats will vote against Money Bags once more.

Looks like no one can give any reason for Turnbull, regrettably for Australia is that Shorten will probably win.