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Turnbull rose to the prime ministership in 2015 when the ruling Liberal party replaced a serving prime minister: Tony Abbott. Turnbull initially spoke publicly of the new style of leadership he would implement. Some eighteen months later, after a damaging result in the national election in 2016, critics suspect that Turnbull has traded away many of those leadership ambitions in order to buy peace with the conservative wing of the governing party. His rhetoric speaks diffently.
It were good therefore that men in their innovations would follow the example of time itself, which indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly and by degrees scarce to be perceived (Of Innovation, Bacon 1625)
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Masters, A.B., Uhr, J. (2017). Malcolm Turnbull: From Hope to Disappointment. In: Leadership Performance and Rhetoric. Palgrave Studies in Political Leadership. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58774-5_8
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