This week, former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull
released a new tell-all autobiography.

The memoir titled - "A Bigger Picture," details his
career in politics.

On Monday night, the former prime minister sat down with
journalist Leigh Sales on the 7.30 Report to discuss his
memoir. Much of what he said sounded like something out
of a soap opera rather than the inner workings of
federal parliament. There was talk of aphrodisiacs, of
being turned on by power, control freaks, and a
"sea of paranoia." He described how his last week in
office really went down,
to his views on our current prime minister Scott
Morrison and those of former prime minster Tony Abbott,
and other politicians. It dealt with the good, the bad,
and the very ugly.

It was cringe worthy but compelling viewing.

I have his book - and am only now starting to read it.
It's going to take a while because it close to 700 pages
with small print and very detailed - beginning with
his childhood. It's not like anything I've seen before
from a former PM. But then neither was his TV interview.

All this from a man who when he took over the nation's
top job there was a sense of excitement in Australia.

The infighting that had dogged politics for the best
part of a decade looked to be over. But a right-wing
insurgency brutally cut-down Turnbull's time in office
after three years leaving many of us asking, "Why?"

He believes that the "right wing have taken the
liberalism out of the LIberal Party." He said -
"The liberal Party... it has become so tribalised.
The right wing have taken the liberalism out of the
Liberal Party and Abbott and his friends and the
Murdoch media, the right-wing shock jocks, they would
have preferred Bill Shorten to be Prime Minister than
me."

"A Liberal Party that they could not control was not a
Liberal Party they wanted to have. It was... it is all
about raw power, I'm afraid."

Your thoughts please?

Foxy,

I watched 7.30 and I think that what Turnbull said must have ruffled a lot of feathers in the LNP.

It is obvious that Turnbull has an axe to grind with some of his former political colleagues and has chosen to destroy the careers of a select few of them.

PS As well as install mistrust among the LNP: They stabbed me in the back fellas. Who's next?

Hi Mr O,

Mr Turnbull likened the right-wing operatives in the
Liberal Party, including media tycoons Rupert Mudoch and
Kerry Stokes, and Alan Jones, to terrorists.

He said:

"The right-wing operates in the Liberal Party - and this
is something that Morrison has to confront, because they
would do exactly the same to him, if they thought they
could."

"The way they operate is to basically bully and
intimidate people. And what they do, they operate like a
terrorist. Now, they don't use guns and bombs, I hasten
to add, but it is the technique of terrorism, where you
create enough mayhem, enough damage, that people in the
middle say, "It has got to come to an end, how can I
stop this terrible horror?"

Mr Turnbull then went on to describe of working in
Canberra as being in a "sea of paranoia."
Ultimately he believes he put his trust in the wrong
people, despite his good intentions.

Personally, I found all this highly disturbing. It is
definitely not the Liberal Party that I grew up with
that he's describing. But I do agree with you -
undoubtedly his remarks would upset many people.
Not only the ones he referred to, but members of the
public who support the Liberal Party.

What disgusting rubbish.

Turnbull was a traitor to those who elected him, being a full lefty in disguise, & all those who put the effort into getting rid of him are heroes for endangering their careers to do so.

Thank god there are still some decent people in parliament, & lets be thankful that most of the other closet lefties in the Liberal ranks have been forced out. At least we have a chance of some good government with that bit of garbage gone.

It is only a chance, with too many conservatives cowardly paying lip service to green stupidity & propaganda, but it is a chance. Perhaps some of them will finally grow a pair & become full blooded men in the future. We can only hope.

Hasbeen,

You don't like Turnball simply because he is an honest man.