Time we donated our ex-PMs to medical research

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Yesterday we had Kevin Rudd blathering nonsense about media. It’s been a near constant stream of invective from Malcolm Turnbull. Today we get Paul Keating crap on Turnbull, via Domainfax:

“His capitulation to conservatives on the republic says all that needs to be said about Malcolm’s wider ambitions for the country,” the former Labor prime minister told Fairfax Media.

“He attacks Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott as ghosts, yet if you needed to know what Malcolm Turnbull truly believes in, what he would die in a ditch over, you would need a microscope to help you find it.”

“Malcolm Turnbull had just on three years as prime minister, yet he failed to show a skerrick of leadership on Australia moving to a republic,” Mr Keating said.

We currently have:

  • an accelerating housing crash;
  • catastrophic criminality in the banking system;
  • an exploding Cold War between the US and China;
  • a strategic impasse between the economy and our freedoms;
  • a gas cartel ravaging the east coast economy by stealing income, and
  • mass immigration killing standards of living plus the multicultural consensus.

But what matters is the republic.

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Let’s donate all of our ex-PMs to medical research.

About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.