Abstract:
As Malcolm Turnbull has begun to face the reality of an unpredictable public and an imminent election, he is not finding life all that easy, despite his early dream run. Being popular with almost no actual policies could never have more than a short-term prospect, and most of his actual policies that have been briefly floated have turned out to be fraught one way or another. Step by step, he has found it necessary to distance himself from his celebration of the open possibilities he intuited in tax matters. First the GST initiatives had to be shelved, then negative gearing of property became a complicated matter in the Liberal Party and so too superannuation reform. Turnbull is turning out to be a babe in the woods, with threats emerging from all sides.
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