Turnbull unplugged

From a new book The Turnbull Gamble, by Wayne Errington and Peter Van Onselen, first, this fascinating background to Malcolm Turnbull’s disastrous “victory” speech on election night:

As the Prime Minister surveyed the wreckage around him, friends had to persuade him to make any sort of election-night appearance…

It was after midnight when he finally took to the podium at Sydney’s Wentworth Hotel, and his remarks were not directed to the public who had ridden...