What is it about Malcolm Turnbull? It seems that everyone in polite society is chatting about the maverick communications minister. Since he took on the media beasts Alan Jones and Andrew Bolt he has won applause from the usual suspects for representing true progressive values. Yet by reducing his right-wing nemeses with a nuclear-powered verbal assault — the likes of which only teenage children with particularly strict mothers might recognise — the ambitious Member for Wentworth may have overstepped the mark.
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