All i can say is politics is a very dirty game.

As for Turnbull, some of the comments were almost defamatory, but I am sure there is a lot of truth to what he said.

i like him. Besides the earlier stuff up with the Treasury official, he was a supporter of doing much about global warming, albeit he could not quite pull it off given some of the dipsticks he had to work with

The liberal party were either totally naïve or totally stupid to allow Turnbull to join the party let alone lead. He was championed by the abc so that says it all. No surprise that he helped get the leftist garbage paper Guardian established. Most globalist/gw fraudsters are deceitful about their agendas. Turnbull was no different. He and Rudd would both rank as Australia's worst PM. Given the choice I would even pick Gillard ahead of Rudd.

Politics certainly sounds like a blood-sport.

Turnbull believes right-wing Liberals and their allies
in Rupert Murdoch-owned media sought to end his
leadership because they couldn't control him.

"The one thing those plutocrats knew, the billionaire
media proprietor knew, is that I did not belong to them,"
he said.

"The truth is that when I was prime minister, everybody
told me not to trust everybody else. There was virtually
nobody that I wasn't being warned against."

"So you could easily, in that sort of environment -
where you are literally being told by this person,
"Don't trust him", that person, "don't trust her,"and
that person, "don't trust any of them"- you could literally
become convulsed in a sea of paranoia. I was determined
to look past that and place my trust in everybody in
order to get the job done and get things done."

I wonder if Julie Bishop would disagree with any of this?
Or any of the other Liberal pollies who are not longer
with us?

A great deal to take in.

I've only just begun to read Mr Turnbull's book.

I have to admit that he writes very beautifully.
He's very easy to read, expresses himself with
great imagery and so far it is a real page-turner.
Of course I'm only at the beginning - dealing with
his childhood. It's so descriptive:

"...Alastair Mackerras, John Sheldon were two of the
most charismatic teachers I ever had. Between them
they could make Latin and Greek interesting for 12-and
13-year old boys. Both were eccentric, and thoroughly
Australian in an Anglophile way that was common with
academics of that era...long before you saw Sheldon
you knew he was there. Hanging like a smoky whisper in
the cool air of the morning, the unmistakably sweet smell
of his tobacco left a trail through the panelled corridors."

"No one else smoked Balkan Sobranie, a blend of tobacco
from Virginia, Macedonia and Syria. John Sheldon, like
his tobacco, was a blend of the conventional and the
exotic. He was entranced by the ancient world. In aid of
Latin, Greek, or indeed Sanskrit. He made no claims of
utility or relevance - although many could be made. But
you couldn't help feeling that without a more than
fleeting acquaintance with the classics, John Sheldon
wouldn't regard you as, well, adequately educated."

"He radiated a love of learning that was, for me at least,
quite irresistible."

Wow! Mr Turnbull certainly writes well.

I think he would have made an excellent teacher.

Foxy,

He's an Arts graduate. That would explain it!

No doubt Turnbull is a very smart man, and a man with strong normative aspirations(and personal drive).

Who do I rank the best PMs since Howard.

Very hard to assess.

Have to say though, Howard was a great PM and did some tough reform (guns and GST), but also fortunate to benefit from mining boom.