In the hands of Malcolm Turnbull and Tony Abbott alone rests the chances for stability of the new Parliament and the Liberal Party itself for some years.

Turnbull today will announce a Cabinet and ministry containing at least four new faces after the shell-shock cliff-hanger of 2 July.

The Prime Minister has a clear choice of continuing his dangerous agenda of regenerating the Liberals from government or embracing the “broad church” approach practiced by Menzies and Howard to settle the party room and indeed provide a semblance of rational government.