When the ALP was in Government we couldn't wait to get rid of them. Not because of their policies but because they were an utterly divided lot.
A lot of people like myself put our fingers to our nose and voted for Liberals hoping that Abbott would grow into the job of PM.
Alas Andrew Elder was proved right and Abbott was totally out of his depth. He would be in a par with Stanley Bruce as one of our worst PMs. At least we had the fortune of him not being there as the GFC erupted.
Most people wanted the Libs to get rid of Abbott as leader and were very happy when Turnbull replaced him. Andrew Hastie for one would not be in Parliament if this had not occurred. The Government was on the road for the mother of all hidings in the next election with Abbott as leader. As PM he simply had a political tin ear.
Unfortunately Turnbull had made a Faustian pact with the 'conservatives' in the party so he never enacted any policies he was known to support but rather continued to implement policies Abbott had promised. He became Abbott lite.
The electorate never wanted this and did not want this. Thus his popularity fell over time. He just got the government over the line although this is what the polls foretold all along.
Ever since the election he has simply made more concessions to the 'conservatives' with the result he now stands for nothing. The disaster of the NEG simply epitomises this entirely. Turnbull now looks as a person without any principles at all who will do anything to stay as PM.
He is a dead man walking. His replacement by Peter Dutton is simply laughable. Dutton is not even a capable minister ( like Abbott actually). He thought Longman was in the bag Here is Anne Twomey on Dutton's troubles
The ALP have gone to odds on for the next election.
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