In a lengthy speech to Parliament yesterday, former Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull laid into Tony Abbott’s climate change policy plan, continuing his support for the Government’s amended CPRS.
But did he deal a damaging blow to his Abbott’s scheme, or come off looking like a sore loser?
Crikey‘s Bernard Keane had this to say on The Stump blog:
Turnbull effortlessly put the case for the CPRS far more eloquently and coherently than Kevin Rudd or any of his ministers has so far managed
Here’s how the rest of Australia’s commentariat saw it:
The Australian
Peter van Onselen: Bravo, an excellent speech, pity about the timing
Malcolm Turnbull gave one of his best political speeches yesterday when he explained why he would cross the floor and vote for the government’s emissions trading scheme. It’s just that it came six months too late to save his leadership.
Paul Kelly: Tragic Malcolm Turnbull keeps kicking
Turnbull yesterday offered an eloquent, rational and policy-wise defence of the Rudd government’s Emissions Trading Scheme but it testifies to an idea whose light is fading in Australia and internationally.
Sydney Morning Herald
David Marr: A dream Labor speech from the vanquished
Turnbull was not delivering a great farewell. This was a working speech, a selling speech, the kind of speech Labor supporters wish their leader would deliver
National Times
Tony Wright, The Goanna: Loneliness of the carbon warrior crossing the line
… he gave the clearest exposition Parliament has yet heard on the reasons why such a scheme was the only rational response to climate change
Elsewhere…
Grog, Grog’s Gamut: On the QT: A Tale of Two Speeches
Today in the House of Representatives two speeches were given by the current and former leaders of the opposition. One was forceful, well reasoned, cutting, intelligent and persuasive. The other was given by Tony Abbott.
Samuel J, Catallaxy Files: Malcolm Bligh Turnbull — Australia’s Don Quixote?
Malcolm Turnbull today abandoned any pretense of support of small government and liberalism by throwing his weight behind the considerably corrupted Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme.
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As losing losers go, they don’t come much bigger thn Malcolm Turnbull.
…or Crikey for it’s lack of a preview facility.
Thanks for the Youtube-level analysis there. I suppose Turnbull’s also a ‘gaytard’.
What MPM, can’t someone have an opinion in a democracy? How does that make him a “loser”? You are quite a vindictive piece of work, mate…a typical One Nation type. And I suppose you’re also behind Abbott’s idea to water-down gun control legislation too?
Come on, Tomboy! MPM’s just confirming the “Liberal Party Broad Church” theory. Soon to be replaced by the “Purity Test”, or “Wingnut-O-Meter”.