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Impossible for some of you I fear, but, like him or otherwise, spare a thought for a very decent man who has tonight suffered the ignominy of losing his job before the eyes of the nation. He, and his family, will be hurting.
As a Liberal, I haven't been a supporter of Turnbull, but now that he's been elevated to the Prime Ministership, I sincerely hope he can find a way to unite us all, for a better Australia, and a prosperous future.
As a Liberal, I haven't been a supporter of Turnbull, but now that he's been elevated to the Prime Ministership, I sincerely hope he can find a way to unite us all, for a better Australia, and a prosperous future.
It's endemic on both sides of politics to be opportunists but the Right, both here and overseas, have raised "the ends justify the means" to an art form. For someone claiming to extol Christian virtues, "the ends justify the means" is the most un-Christian of positions. He was only ever in the seminary for the career advancement opportunities the Catholic Church offered. It was Howard's willingness to play Children Overboard for votes that did it for me with the Libs, but Abbott's willingness to toy with the worlds most vulnerable people 'pour encourager les autres', to continue to allow anybody, let alone children, to be kept in the inhuman conditions of Nauru and Manus, to downplay climate change and renewables to appease Gina, Twiggy, and a few marginal seats, to chuck out good policy for nothing but the sake of making the other mob look bad, are not the actions of 'a very decent man'.
He's a boil on the arse of humanity and may he long be remembered as the worst Prime Minister of the modern era.
(the above is based on both the public record and a handful of off the record conversations).

