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I should be fin­ish­ing an essay on inter­na­tional law and ter­ror­ism, but it’s Tues­day morn­ing, and Ger­ard is fish­ing for reactions.

Hende­r­son con­tin­ues to dis­play the petu­lance of someone who simply will not give up the cul­ture wars:

Shortly after the Coalition’s defeat in last November’s fed­eral elec­tion, Dr Nor­man Abjorensen appeared on Lateline and pre­dicted the demise of the Lib­eral Party. Yet, within less than a year of John Howard’s dev­ast­at­ing defeat, the Lib­er­als have regained gov­ern­ment in West­ern Aus­tralia with the sup­port of the Nation­als. Abjorensen is an aca­demic

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Your pre­cious Howard lost. You don’t get brownie points from pick­ing at the incon­sequen­tial scraps of a by-gone era. MOVE ON.

Yet the mes­sage from West­ern Aus­tralia, the North­ern Ter­rit­ory and the rural Vic­torian seat of Gipps­land sug­gests that there is some dis­sat­is­fac­tion with Labor.

Given the bizar­rely resi­li­ent strength of the Labor vote in many parts of NSW in the recent coun­cil elec­tions, voters are quite cap­able of dis­tin­guish­ing between the vari­ous levels of gov­ern­ment. Typ­ic­ally disin­genu­ous of Hende­r­son to ignore loc­al­ised factors. West­ern Aus­tralia is Labor’s weak­est state, and Car­penter inex­plic­ably called an elec­tion dur­ing that brief period of time when Colin Barnett had a ven­eer of author­ity. Con­grat­u­la­tions to him non­ethe­less. Dunno about the NT. Gippsland’s always been a con­ser­vat­ive seat.

In spite of his rel­at­ive polit­ical inex­per­i­ence, Turn­bull does have firm pos­i­tions. That’s why he looks like lead­er­ship mater­ial now that Cos­tello has walked away from the job and now that the Coali­tion appears to have an ever so slight chance of vic­tory in 2010.

Now he’s just mak­ing it up. Turnbull’s pos­i­tion on the budget and fiscal policy flipped 180º in the space of 30 minutes. To shore up Wentworth he waxed lyr­ical about same-sex enti­tle­ments. Now he’s curi­ously quiet. Kyoto: to sign or not to sign? Which way’s the wind blow­ing?!

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