- Speers clarifies what actually happened in the week that ended Turnbull - and, thankfully, Dutton.
- He also blows out of the water the absurd myth that Morrison engineered it weeks beforehand, and was never a last minute ‘accidental’ leadership candidate. He was.
- And Julie Bishop was soundly defeated in the first voting round not because she was a woman or considered insubstantial (which she is), but because her supportive colleagues judged her highly unlikely to beat Dutton in the final runoff. She was too ‘moderate’.
- Poor Mathias Cormann. A real robot after all.
- As for Mitch Fifield, possibly the worst minister for communications and the arts we’ve ever had - and that’s saying something - he went from ‘backing Turnbull, to Dutton, to Morrison’ in two days!
- This is a clearly written record of an extraordinary week in Australian political history. Speers is fair and no political bias is evident.
- It was a week that made the Coalition even more beatable in the next election than it was. Extraordinary tin ears, all of them.
- It only takes a little more than hour to read, so buy it, read it, and save it for your kids or grandkids when they’re studying Australian history, politics or comedy in a decade’s time.
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