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conrad
conrad
10 years ago

Given that the malicious and presumably internally driven leaks have started against Abbott in less than a year (fast even by recent Labor standards), perhaps it won’t be too long before Turnbull takes his job, which might be a great relief for many people, presumably excluding the Labor party who will have a lot more competition to worry about.

whyisitso
whyisitso
10 years ago

If Turnbull replaces Abbott, it means the only three real political parties (counting the Nats as part of the Coalition) would be left-wing. I’d vote informal rather than vote for leftists.

rog
rog
10 years ago

I have become less and less enamoured of Turnbull, he is a skillful debater but seems to lack fundamental principles.

rog
rog
10 years ago
Reply to  Ingolf Eide

Turnbull’s well argued and principled position on climate change appears to have been deleted and his approach to the NBN lacks support of the experts of that industry. The Godwin Grech fiasco exposed him as a man lacking judgement.

He appears to be acting as an advocate, willing to use any argument to “give it a go”. Just who he is acting for is unclear, I suspect it is his vanity.

I used to be and still am Not Trampis
I used to be and still am Not Trampis
10 years ago

all left wing ??
how come Swan brought down the tightest budget we are ever likely to see?

you need to use both eyes not just one!

Sancho
Sancho
10 years ago

To the far right, centre-right means left-wing.

It’s true, though, that if Turnbull were leader of the Liberal Party (and he managed to win the battles necessary to shape it), extremist right wing voters would have to park with minor parties and independents.

Terry Cane
Terry Cane
10 years ago

Malcolm Turnbull is a devout capitalist he is confirmed on the user pays principle. He appears to be profoundly against fibre optics to the door re NBN. Has he considered the benefit of wiring every household via fibre optic and recovering hundreds of tonnes of redundant and degraded copper wire for recycling. Surely the recycling of the copper network would be
a) a positive environmental consideration
b) likely to defray the cost of fibre optics to households
c) reduce overall maintenance costs regarding current copper network.

David Walker
10 years ago

Funnily enough, in the course of researching the post you kindly mention, I came across this transcript of Malcolm Turnbull with a bunch of journalists talking about the NBN. He very elegantly and politely rips them a new one over their failure to look at overseas broadband implementations. Frankly, if I were Turnbull, facing the regular abuse of people like the ABC’s Nick Ross, I might have lost it by now. He’s simply in a different league from the people try to interrogate him, to the point where you can sense that he’s struggling with how to make them register the points he’s making.

Paul Montgomery
Paul Montgomery
10 years ago
Reply to  Ingolf Eide

The U-Verse example that Turnbull used is notorious for poor connection speeds, it’s ranked #14 out of 16 in the US. See: here for a graph.

Turnbull is an excellent speaker but don’t be sucked in by his rhetoric. The talking points he uses are well researched, but if you delve into them they often don’t hold up to scrutiny. He gives the impression that he’s a well-briefed minister with full command of an army of wonks behind him, which is understandably the sort of thing that Troppodilians get excited about. The reality is that the justifications for his positions are frequently tenuous at best.

rog
rog
10 years ago

AT&T use both FTTN and FTTP technology, FTTN having limitations imposed by distance from the cabinet and quality of existing service. FTTP is universally accepted as being vastly superior with FTTN being tolerated as a transition to FTTP.

The AT&T U-verse provides three services, TV telephone and Internet.

I’ll happily bet Turnbull has the best service (that money can buy) to his own premises.

Tyler
Tyler
10 years ago

The man is quite happily part of a government which is perfectly content to fiddle while the globe burns despite professing to take the threat posed by climate change seriously. Insofar as he could ever have been viewed as a vaguely ‘sensible’ liberal his capitulation to the reactionary anti-science fringe that is this government should eliminate this impression.

Excuses like ‘oh well he’d lose his position as a minister’ are risible given the fact that the current government isn’t just damaging Australia’s policy response to climate change but is actively attempting to sabotage any global deal.

rog
rog
10 years ago
Reply to  Ingolf Eide

What is the significance of Turnbull tweeting an article in the Economist? (other than indicating that Turnbull is capable of both running with the fox and hunting with hounds)

Tyler
Tyler
10 years ago
Reply to  Ingolf Eide

The government has already eliminated an effective carbon price, is clearly hoping to gut the renewable energy target, has attempted to axe nigh on every federal climate change programe and body. What more will it take for you to condemn Turnbull for being an active participant in this insanity?