Generals it's said, lose battles by fighting the last
war, and it is increasingly clear Malcolm Turnbull is fighting the hard
right of the Liberal party like it is still 2009.
Back then, Mr Turnbull lost the Liberal leadership after a
revolt by arch conservatives in the party over attempts to introduce a carbon
emissions trading scheme. Yet despite having since won back the top job – and
then an election – Mr Turnbull appears to have learnt the wrong lesson. He has
decided to kowtow to those same hardline forces instead of tackling the reality
of climate change.
Read the Editorial in today’s Melbourne Age -“PM’s kowtowing serves no one.
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