re: #273 Anymouse

Yeah, Turnbull is a semi-charismatic, somewhat socially liberal-minded business leader (who recently admitted he donated 1.75 million to his own part during the last election)*. Also a republican, like me.

At the moment he’s got the tail of the conservative tiger and is afraid to make policy decisions of any kind that might expose him to attacks, not just from the Labor opposition (under the steady leadership of Bill Shorten; a wooden character who still has the job presumably because he’s a master of factional warfare) but from the ultra-cons in his own party.

We’ll see if his brand of pragmatism works out.

*big news here, but small potatoes in the US.