I watched Q&A on Thursday evening - hoping to see a
fallen Prime Minister reflecting on his mistakes.
Instead, what I saw was a defiant man who still could not
understand why he was brought down.

What did other posters make of his appearance on the show?

Foxy,

What on earth made you hope for that? I don't recall a past PM ever admitting that he/she did anything wrong.

SM,

Self confidence is a trait leaders are amply
endowed with, but in Mr Turnbull's case it
was bolstered by a faith in private party
polling data only he and a select few in the
leadership group had access to and to which
Mr Turnbull referred during the show.

He believed then (in August) the same as now,
those "tracking" figures drawn from up to 20
key marginal seats had placed his government in
an election winning position and the 51-49
percent deficit to Labor in Newspoll - was near
enough not to matter.

You expect too much, it runs in the family.

Malcolm Turnbull’s son will fund independents to take on Liberal MPs

He got the result he wanted in the Wentworth by-election, but Malcolm Turnbull’s son Alex is not done causing chaos yet.

Mr Turnbull, whose father led the Liberals until he was ditched as prime minister in August and left parliament, has committed to fund independents to run against senior government MPs, including Tony Abbott, Barnaby Joyce and Energy Minister Angus Taylor, at the next federal election.

The 26-year-old fund manager, based in Singapore, has been a vocal opponent of the Liberal Party’s right wing ever since Scott Morrison replaced his father.

He was extremely active in the weeks before the by-election in Mr Turnbull’s old seat Wentworth, urging voters to send the Liberals a message.

He eventually got behind the candidacy of independent Kerryn Phelps, who defeated Dave Sharma to win the seat and rob Mr Morrison’s government of its majority in parliament.

Speaking to The Guardian, Mr Turnbull promised he would both donate his own money and help raise more to help “small-L liberal” candidates.

He specifically identified National Farmers Federation President Fiona Simson as someone he could support if she decided to run against the former Nationals leader, Mr Joyce, in the seat of New England.

Media commentator Jane Caro has toyed with the idea of running against Mr Abbott in Warringah.

Whoever he chooses, Mr Turnbull wants someone who supports action on climate change.

“This issue is, if you are going to win, you need someone with local credibility, who is practical and reasonable. Their only real barriers are cash and organisational support. Cash often solves organisational issues,” Mr Turnbull said.

http://www.news.com.au/national/politics/malcolm-turnbulls-son-will-fund-independents-to-take-on-liberal-mps/news-story/1ce9f8b2d7901f018f93279bf24e4d58

Turnbull should never have been elected as Liberal leader and I did not bother to watch the Q&A show.

I will never understand how the Libs came to elect him. Pity they did not wake up sooner.

Dutton can't count numbers - is that good for a PM?
What has Scomo done that Turnbull didn't?