Harold Macmillan, British Tory prime minister, asked by a journalist what had caused the downfall of his government reputedly responded, “Events, dear boy, events”.
And events, did, surely, push Malcolm Turnbull’s stand-alone Q&A session from the collective consciousness, as media and the public turned to the far more riveting revelation that a state Labor leader had, allegedly, put his hand down the dress of an ABC reporter.
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