Some potentially explosive conjecture from the Executive Director of Labor’s shiniest new think-thank (I was waiting to see ALP mischief-making on this front, which will be disconcerting to small-L Liberals):
“Malcolm Turnbull…roars from the back bench at the injustice of his rejection. Yet his meaningful split was not with Liberal colleagues. The more significant departure came years ago when he turned down Paul Keating's offer of a Labor Senate seat.
For Turnbull is at heart a progressive who found himself on the wrong side of the seminal fault line in Australian politics: not Right v Left, not business v union, but progressive v conservative…
Perhaps he will not refuse the next Labor job offer that comes his way.”
