Six months ago 54 Liberal Party members and senators stamped the mark of Cain upon their foreheads, deposing as Prime Minister the man who led them back from the political wilderness to which Malcolm Turnbull had consigned them, and then to a smashing 2013 electoral victory. Yet, as noted in my Australian Financial Review article last Tuesday, ‘the new government appears becalmed.
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John Stone is a former Secretary to the Treasury (1979-84) and former National Party Senate leader (1987-90)
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