Turnbull drops an easy pass. Again.
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The current unhappiness with uninvited guests refusing to leave an Australian vessel in an Indonesian port has stirred up the old race hate fans like Wilson Tuckey and Barnaby Joyce with a view to scoring some cheap political points.
Notionally it is better news for the Opposition and given them a breather from the damaging infighting but it’s not all beer and skittles for them just yet. The problem stems from firstly not having a policy to follow and secondly a lack of logical thinking on the part of their Leader.
In the first instance. chaps like Iron bar Tuckey have no set rules to follow (assuming he actually would) and he gets a bit excited. In Iron bar’s case it led to the bizarre demand that Aussie soldiers should throw the asylum seekers off the vessel. Now either Tuckey doesn’t have much of a grip of geography or he is running a bit shy of how diplomacy works. Sending troops into another country to throw their weight around is not likely to go down especially well with very many people and in all likelyhood is illegal in the International court. (Policy fail)
Secondly, if you do want to score political points as Turnbull wishes to do, it’s a good idea to try making the statement out loud in front of your advisers but in private. This way you can check your statement for logic without it going on record. Clearly young Malcolm didn’t think it through this time when he claimed the current boat load of asylum seekers having originated from Indonesia “completely destroyed Kevin Rudd’s argument about political pressure in Sri Lanka.”
Interesting logic that. News reports from Sri Lanka make it perfectly clear there is a very unsympathetic Government dealing with the surviving Tamil Tigers. Conciliation is not on the agenda. One boat load can hardly be claimed to be representative of the whole problem.
This really points to Turnbull’s ongoing problem in front of the media. He seems to get over excited and forget to leave himself some wriggle room. Yes, he could make some milage out of the current problem but he has to be a bit more thoughtful. Blowing his credibility at the opening of an attack gets the focus on him instead of the point he wants to make. It’s not the first time he has made a dill of himself and I think it stems from his attitude that he is always right. Some Press conferences seem to show him thinking on his feet rather than being prepared.
Can he fix it? Well yes, but does he know he has a problem? I think his attitude suggests he thinks he is without blame in the current despair gripping the party room and unless he takes a “good hard look at himself” he will probably leave the job feeling he was never given a fair go. He has been given fairly good support but when he drops the easy ball like this you can’t blame the Libs looking for a better player.
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