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Leader of the Liberal

Party wets and heir
apparent to the prime
ministership, Malcolm
Bligh Turnbull is popular
amongst progressives,
however Sydney bureau
chief Ross Jones thinks
he's a drip.

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Malcolm Turnbull is a rolled-gold dickhead.

Bright when he was young. Like his opponent, a Rhodes
Scholar. Rich, successful, pumped. Mr Internet. One half of
Australias pre-eminent power couple.
But a dickhead.

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Rough assessment?
Despite the apparently glorious overarching narrative that is
Malcolms life, even including his 1999 republic
disappointment/failure, two events afford even the most
casual observer a glimpse directly through the emperors
clothes Raingate and Utegate.

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A leader does not make decisions like these.

In the week before the 2007 Ruddslide election, reported
the ABC's Matt Hoy, when the Libs knew they were gone
big time:
' Mr Turnbull found the time to announce that the
Government, already in caretaker mode, would
bankroll to the tune of $10 million the investigation of
an untried Russian technology that aims to trigger
rainfall from the atmosphere, even when there are no
clouds.'
Malcolm had another agenda of course.

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Requests for interviews with Mr Turnbull, the head of the

Australian Rain Corporation, the head of the centre
contracted to test the device were declined.
So, $10m as caretaker environnment minister on untested
hocus pocus. It seems the bucks were destined for
associates.

Matt Hoy again:

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Emanating from affluent suburbs like Vaucluse, Rose

Bay and Watson's Bay, Malcolm Turnbull's
fundraising group the Wentworth Forum, includes a
long list of generous donors including Frank Lowy,
Ros Packer, John Simons, and Matt Handbury,
chairman and part-owner of the so-called Australian
Rain Corporation, beneficiary of the Minister's
funding....
Mr Handbury is the wealthy nephew of Rupert
Murdoch and chairman and proprietor of Murdoch
Books, which is the headquarters for Australian Rain
Corporation.
The 7.30 Report put to Malcolm Turnbull the following
questions: has Matt Handbury's contribution to your
fundraising Wentworth Forum helped in securing
funding for the Australian Rain Corporation?
"There is absolutely no connection," he said "That is
an outrageous suggestion".
Secondly, why couldn't the Matt Handbury Swiss
consortium pay for its own research?
Response: "The company is contributing funding to
the research and trial."
Our final question to the Minister was why should this
not be seen as securing funding for one of your
electorate supporters ahead of an election the
Government is tipped to lose?
Mr Turnbull did not directly answer this question ...
Then there was Utegate and Godwin Grech.

Poor Godwin. Ended up in care. We can only conclude

Malcolm is a poor judge of scam artists.

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Make no mistake, Turnbull is as cunning as a shithouse rat.

But he, too, has many barnacles. The Libs would be mad to
anoint him.
Heres hoping.

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