The left-wing admiration for Malcolm Turnbull, with his PC-opinions and hip leather jacket during his wilderness years of 2010-2015, was always going to come to a crashing halt should ever he resume the Liberal leadership.
Turnbull has always been in stark contrast to his long-time rival, Tony Abbott. Where Turnbull’s student days were spent in admiration of Jack Lang, Abbott admired B A Santamaria, during the republic campaign they led opposite sides, and Abbott won the Liberal leadership through a protest vote against Turnbull’s support for an ETS.
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