“Absolutely not,” Turnbull says. We’re sitting in the conference room of his office high above Circular Quay in Sydney, looking out at the harbour he was sailing on a few days earlier. “Clearly people will have different perspectives and, indeed, different recollections. Politics is a very tough business and in many respects an unedifying one, but an account of a political life has to be factual. If it’s not, then it’s of diminished value.
But few can know how it feels to be thrown from power, twice, in acts of political violence that turn someone from a leader to a has-been overnight. We sometimes dismiss our former politicians with the joke about “relevance deprivation syndrome” – a term coined by former Labor foreign minister Gareth Evans when he lost power after his party was swept from office in 1996 – but the damage is real in an era in which Australia has had five prime ministers in a decade.
Turnbull himself buried some of the memories: the diary from that time was locked in a computer file called “Darkness”, protected by a password he’d forgotten. Only when he began writing did the password resurface. With it came memories of the anti-depressants he took – some of them doing more harm than good – and the professional help he received.
Cycling through the stages of shock and grief, Turnbull also cycled 30 kilometres or more on most days. He caught up with an old friend, Harold Evans, editor of the UKfrom 1967 to 1981. One of the formative moments in Turnbull’s life came in 1976, when Evans saw him at a Cambridge University debate – Turnbull was visiting during the Australian summer break – and warned him, in good humour, against going into politics.
The tactic failed when Turnbull won the ballot by only 48 to 35 votes, leading him to accept, according to his book, that “half a dozen” Morrison supporters had voted for Dutton to damage the incumbent and clear the way for their own candidate. What he cannot wave away is the fact his government had lost 38 Newspolls in a row: worse than the benchmark he set when he challenged Abbott three years earlier on the grounds the former leader had lost 30 in a row.election victory against Labor leader Bill Shorten
Malcolm Turnbull with Mathias Cormann and Scott Morrison in August 2018: “Cormann’s conduct disappointed me the most because, for a start, we had become good friends.”Whose betrayal hurt most? “I would have to say that [Mathias] Cormann’s conduct disappointed me the most because, for a start, we had become good friends.” Turnbull writes in his book that “Mathias regarded Scott as emotional, narcissistic and untrustworthy and told me so regularly.
TurnbullMalcolm CroweDM A blow job for Turnbull.
TurnbullMalcolm CroweDM I don't think so. With very serious depression you cannot function very well at all - you cannot read, problem solve,.. learn anything new. Most of those like this are just overly serious or bit down - not full blown depression.
TurnbullMalcolm CroweDM Well thanks for keeping that a secret from the voting public Malcolm 👍🏻
TurnbullMalcolm CroweDM Hoping no one will be interested in his woes or back stabbing stories and he should now as he did a lot of vilification himself. Even this photo shows his arrogance
TurnbullMalcolm CroweDM the miserable ghost
TurnbullMalcolm CroweDM I am questioning the timing of his interviews and memoirs. we are going through major public health disaster and the worst financial crisis. Millions have lost jobs. This could have waited for some more time.
TurnbullMalcolm CroweDM More like people battling Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
TurnbullMalcolm CroweDM Pictured amongst all his friends and supporters !!!
TurnbullMalcolm CroweDM Thanks for putting us through the SSM plebiscite and allowing the needless further vilification of LGBTIQ+ people! Oh and thank you for then patting yourself on the back as some champion for equality...
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TurnbullMalcolm CroweDM It reflects society in these modern days.
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