1 Alan Jones, ‘Malcolm Turnbull’, 2GB, 5 June 2014, http://www.2gb.com/audioplayer/47661 and http://www.malcolmturnbull.com.au/media/transcript-interview-with-alan-jones-and-the-budget-and-relations-with-cliv
2 Sid Maher, Amanda O’Brien and Jared Owens, ‘Clive ducks out on miners for mates’, The Australian, 30 May 2014.
3 Louise Yaxley, ‘Andrew Bolt “deranged” and “unhinged”, says Malcolm Turnbull’, ABC transcripts, 2 June 2014.
4 Michelle Grattan, ‘Clive Palmer stirs the Liberal leadership pot and the gender one too’, The Conversation, 2 June 2014.
5 Tony Wright, ‘Puffed-up Palmer explodes, just like a balloon full of hot air’, SMH, 4 June 2014.
6 Malcolm Turnbull, ‘Condolence Speech—Gough Whitlam’, House Hansard, 21 October 2014, p.11540.
1 Lang, Dr John Dunmore, Historical and Statistical Account of NSW (Sampson, Low, Marston and Searle, London), 1875, Vol. 1, p. 75 cited in R.M. Arndell, Pioneers of Portland Head, Star Printery, 1984, p. 247. There are various versions of the quote. Malcolm Turnbull, in his The Spycatcher Trial, William Heinemann Australia, 1988, p. 17, gives it without citation as: ‘What are you doing here, old man, at the end of the earth, with one foot in the grave and one out of it?’
2 There are various birthdates given to John Turnbull—Australianroyalty.net.au lists 28 April 1751 but Ancestry.com says he was christened then, and born in 1842. Arndell gives 1743. The exhaustively researched book Turnbulls on the Coromandel 1802: Hawkesbury River Colonists (self-published, 2002) by Dorothy and Roy Turnbull concludes the birthdate is unknown but estimates 1748, and this is followed by the Australian National University’s National Centre for Biography, which has published Malcolm Turnbull’s family tree at http://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/treeview/17324. I have followed the ANU.
3 Bobbie Hardy, Early Hawkesbury Settlers, Kangaroo Press, 1985.
4 Arndell, p. 251.
5 Hardy, op. cit.
6 Turnbull and Turnbull, p. 27.
7 Ebenezer Church 200 Year Celebrations, June 2009, DVD, on sale at the church.
8 Louise McMahon, ‘MP’s Ebenezer pilgrimage’, Hawkesbury Gazette, 20 September 2006.
9 Turnbull and Turnbull, p. 35.
10 Arndell, p. 258.
11 Geo. G. Reeve, ‘Ebenezer Pioneers of the Hawkesbury’, Windsor and Richmond Gazette, 6 April 1923, pp. 1, 2.
12 The Turnbull family bible is said to be the one used in the first service at Ebenezer and is now kept in the Mitchell Library in the State Library of New South Wales.
13 ‘415th casualty list’, SMH, 9 July 1918, p. 8.
14 Correspondence with Christine Fernon, National Centre of Biography, 1–2 October 2015.
15 See Christine Fernon, ‘A Hawkesbury family’, Biography Footnotes, Newsletter of the National Centre for Biography, Australian National University, Issue 12, 2013, p. 9.
16 Peter Hartcher, ‘Tony Abbott rolled by his own ministers’, SMH, 29 May 2015.
17 ‘Show awards’, Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder, 11 March 1941, p. 3.
18 ‘Touched live wire’, Newcastle Morning Herald and Miner’s Advocate, 13 October 1948, p. 3.
19 ‘Engagements’, Newcastle Morning Herald and Miner’s Advocate, 12 September 1944, p. 2.
20 See Malcolm Turnbull’s speech at the launch of The ADB’s Story, 5 December 2013, http://malcolmturnbull.com.au/media/book-launch-the-adbs-story and in Biography Footnotes, Newsletter of the National Centre for Biography, Australian National University, Issue 12, 2013, pp. 6–8; also ‘Paths of Glory’, Australian Story, ABC TV, 3 August 2009.
21 Richard Lane, The Golden Age of Australian Radio Drama 1923–1960, MUP, 1994, p. xi.
22 ‘From child actress to novelist’, SMH, 4 April 1991, obituary, Coral Lansbury 1929–1991.
23 Jane Cadzow, ‘Triumphs of Coral’, Weekend Australian Magazine, 13–14 December 1986, p. 6.
24 ‘Her first serials about Kimberleys’, SMH, 6 November 1952, p. 7.
25 ‘Coral Lansbury’, Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser, 2 September 1947, p. 1.
26 Valerie Lawson, ‘Forever Nifty’, SMH, 28 December 1991.
27 Malcolm Turnbull, ‘Condolence on Neville Wran’, 14 May 2014, http://www.malcolmturnbull.com.au/media/condolence-on-neville-wran
28 ‘Her first serials about Kimberleys’, SMH, 6 November 1952, p. 7.
29 ‘Radio man’s estate’, SMH, 17 December 1953.
30 ‘Coral Lansbury has wed again’, Truth, 5 December 1954, p. 5.
31 Melanie Nolan, ‘Coral Magnolia Lansbury (1929–1991)’, Australian Dictionary of Biography.
32 Turnbull, The ADB’s Story launch speech.
33 ‘Playwrights are on the air’, SMH, 26 September 1957, p. 20.
34 Lane, p. 278.
35 Australian Radio Series (1930s–1970s): A Guide to the Holdings in the National Film and Sound Archive, National Film and Sound Archive, 1998, p. 198.
36 Valerie Grove, ‘Famecatcher grows rich and looks for new worlds to win’, Sunday Times, 16 October 1988, p. 5.
37 Australian Story.
38 Ibid.
39 Robert Hefner, ‘Mum of “Spycatcher” lawyer has regrets’, SMH, 23 October 1988, p. 4.
40 Lawson, ‘Forever Nifty’, op. cit.
41 Lucy Hughes Turnbull, Sydney: Biography of a City, Random House Australia, 1999, esp. ch. 15, ‘The Eastern Suburbs’, pp. 375–401.
42 Malcolm Turnbull, ‘Governor-General’s speech address-in-reply’, House Hansard, 29 November 2004, p. 63.
43 Garry Linnell, ‘Turnbull’s ambition, intellect, desire and fury’, The Daily Telegraph, 17 September 2008.
44 Deborah Snow, ‘How Mal and I shared that humble rented red-brick flat’, SMH, 20 September 2008, p. 6.
45 Australian Story.
46 Ibid.
47 Mike Steketee, ‘Being Malcolm Turnbull—He’s bright, he’s rich, he’s supremely ambitious. But is he a politician? What Malcolm wants’, Weekend Australian Magazine, 29 November 2003.
48 Frank Walker, ‘The ties that bind’, Sunday Life (The Sun-Herald), 22 July 2001, p. 16.
49 Joan Priest, Scholars and Gentlemen: A Biography of the Mackerras Family, Boolarong, 1986, pp. 290–1.
50 Australian Story.
51 Malcolm Turnbull, correspondence with author, 2 October 2015.
52 Priest, p. 143.
53 Ibid., p. 131.
54 Angus Fontaine, ‘Primed, Minister’, GQ, May 2015, pp. 140–7; ‘I had an ad in the local paper digging, pruning and mowing people’s gardens; later I worked as a labourer at the fruit markets.’
55 John Lyons, ‘Raging Turnbull’, SMH, 13 April 1991, pp. 23–30.
56 Priest, p. 127.
57 Lyons, op. cit.
58 Joe Aston, ‘All star cast at David Gonski’s book launch’, Rear Window, AFR, 29 May 2015.
59 Annabel Crabb, ‘When Turnbull was a teen terror’, SMH, 15 August 2009.
60 ‘Steve Kilbey on his and Malcolm Turnbull’s adolescent fumbles (in love and politics)’, Daily Review, 16 September 2015; extracted from Steve Kilbey, Something Quite Peculiar, Hardie Grant, 2014.
61 Malcolm Turnbull, Fighting for the Republic, Hardie Grant, 1999, p. 139.
62 Adrian Cooper, interview with author.
63 Laurie Fahy, interview with author.
64 The Sydneian, No. 361, November 1968, p. 8.
65 The Sydneian, No. 363, November 1969, pp. 110–11.
66 The Sydneian, No. 365, November 1970, p. 36.
67 Ibid., p. 148.
68 The Sydneian, No. 369, November 1972, p. 120.
69 The Sydneian, No. 365, November 1970, p. 34.
70 Malcolm Turnbull, ‘Faster examinations’, Letters, SMH, 21 December 1970.
71 The Sydneian, No. 366, July 1970, p. 58.
72 Ibid.
73 See also Kilbey, op. cit.
74 The Sydneian, No. 367, November 1971, p. 18.
75 Rob Hirst, ‘Malcolm Turnbull’s school days’, The Bulletin, 11 September 2007, p. 22.
76 Steketee, op. cit.
77 Hirst, p. 23.
78 The Sydneian, No. 369, November 1972, p. 13.
79 Australian Story.
80 Josephine Tovey, ‘HSC results: Malcolm Turnbull recalls the day he received his results as wait for NSW students is almost over’, SMH, 16 December 2013.
81 D.D. McNicoll, ‘Dux-hunting season’, The Australian, 19 September 2008.
82 Priest, op. cit.
83 Bob Carr, interview with author. It may have been 1970, for that year the fourth-former spoke on the history of the war to a packed Monday meeting of the school’s newly-formed ‘Insight’ discussion group (see Sydneian); also see Greg Sheridan, When We Were Young and Foolish, Allen & Unwin, 2015.
1 Malcolm Turnbull, ‘Union duplicity’, Letters, Honi Soit, Vol. 46, No. 11, 14 June 1973, p. 2.
2 Malcolm Turnbull, ‘Apology’, Letters, Honi Soit, Vol. 46, No. 12, 21 June 1973, p. 2.
3 ‘Turnbull and the Brimaud Machine’, Briefings, Honi Soit, Vol. 46, No. 13, 28 June 1973, p. 3.
4 John Howard, Lazarus Rising, HarperCollins, 2010, p. 24: ‘I embraced most of my parents’ political attitudes, particularly their support for private enterprise and especially of the small business variety’; see p. 27 for a discussion of Howard’s deafness and impact on his university study, where he notes ‘all of my university time was spent at the law school at Phillip Street … I only ever went to the main university campus to sit for exams, or attend Union Night debates, which I did fairly frequently’; and pp. 29–30: ‘Largely due to my hearing problem, I found university quite taxing. I was reluctant to get too heavily involved in other activities until I knew that I would qualify as a lawyer. As a result, my experience was very different from that of many of my colleagues, who cut their teeth on university politics.’
5 Tony Abbott, Battlelines, MUP, 2009, p. 11.
6 David Marr, ‘Political animal’, Quarterly Essay, Issue 47, 2012, p. 16.
7 Madonna King, Not Just Your Average Joe, UQP, 2014: ‘Joe provided beer—big kegs that sat beside each of the ballot boxes, reminding students of the largesse offered by candidate Joe Hockey … “So we turned every booth into a party, and built up my numbers”, he says.’
8 Annabel Crabb, ‘Stop at nothing: The life and adventures of Malcolm Turnbull’, Quarterly Essay, Issue 34, 2009, p. 25.
9 Bob Ellis, And So It Went: Night Thoughts in a Year of Change, Viking, 2009, p. 11.
10 Ibid.
11 Crabb, ‘Stop at nothing’, p. 26.
12 Malcolm Turnbull, ‘Lang: A man who knew how to hate’, Nation Review, 3 October 1975, p. 1299.
13 Wayne Swan, The Good Fight: Six Years, Two Prime Ministers and Staring Down the Great Recession, Allen & Unwin, 2014, Kindle edition, loc. 1512.
14 Malcolm Turnbull, ‘Lang: A man who knew how to hate’, op. cit.
15 Crabb, ‘Stop at nothing’, p. 30.
16 Laurie Ferguson, interview with author.
17 Malcolm Turnbull, correspondence with author, 2 October 2015.
18 Valerie Lawson, ‘A style all his own’, SMH, 9 April 2005.
19 See Sam Everingham’s excellent biography Gordon Barton: Australia’s Maverick Entrepeneur, Allen & Unwin, 2009.
20 Malcolm Turnbull, ‘The Australian Constitution’, Union Recorder, Vol. 54, No. 7, 18 April 1974, pp. 80–1.
21 Malcolm Turnbull, correspondence with author, 2 October 2015; for McKinlay v Commonwealth (1975) 135 CLR 1 (1 December 1975), see http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/sinodisp/au/cases/cth/HCA/1975/53.html?stem=0&synonyms=0&query=title(mckinlay%20)
22 Malcolm Turnbull, ‘Ponder the chaos of an election at large’, The Bulletin, 17 December 1977, p. 97
23 Malcolm Turnbull, ‘Gordon Barton’, Honi Soit, Vol. 47, The Last Soit, October 1974, pp. 6–7.
24 Malcolm Turnbull, ‘Gordon Barton’, Honi Soit, Vol. 47, The Last Soit, October 1974, pp. 6–7.
25 Ibid.
26 Malcolm Turnbull, ‘President Gerry’, Honi Soit, Vol. 47, No. 21, 1974, p. x.
27 Malcolm Turnbull, ‘Gough Whitlam’, Honi Soit, Vol. 47, No. 26, 1974, p. 5.
28 Union Debates, Union Recorder, Vol. 54, No. 2, 7 March 1974, p. 27 and for the poem itself see Malcolm Turnbull, ‘The Ballad of Gundamire’, Union Recorder, Vol. 54, No. 4, 21 March 1974, p. 55.
29 Bob Gaussen, interview with author.
30 Honi Soit.
31 Bob Gaussen, interview with author.
32 Turnbull, ‘Gordon Barton’, op. cit.
33 See ‘180 degrees’, This American Life, Ep. 527, 13 June 2014, http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/527/transcript
34 Malcolm Turnbull, ‘Wallace: Rolling into the White House?’ Nation Review, 10–16 January, 1975, p. 352.
35 Malcolm Turnbull, ‘Enoch Powell: The shadow on the Right’, Honi Soit, 28 April 1975, p. 6.
36 Ibid.
37 Ibid.
38 This story is based on a reading of the minutes of the Union Board.
39 Fergus McPherson, personal communication with author.
40 David Patch, ‘Abbott’s habits die hard’, SMH, 13 September 2012.
41 David Patch, interview with author.
42 Malcolm Turnbull, ‘The Constitution: A democratic failure’, Nation Review, 24 October 1975, p. 38.
43 Ibid.
44 Ibid.
45 Malcolm Turnbull, ‘The game parallel’, Nation Review, 14 November 1975, p. 112.
46 Ibid.
47 Ibid.
48 Malcolm Turnbull, ‘Some reform proposals within the present system’, Nation Review, 19 December 1975, p. 248.
49 Annabel Crabb, ‘Tony Abbott’s hug or shrug game to win friends and influence people’, SMH, 21 February 2015 and Paul Bongiorno, ‘Claiming Gough’s political legacy’, The Saturday Paper, 25 October 2014.
50 Malcolm Turnbull, ‘Uncle Tom turns off the raw porn’, Nation Review, 24 December 1975, p. 273.
51 Malcolm Turnbull, ‘Rocktober Tom is rocked out’, Nation Review, 23 January 1975, p. 367.
52 Malcolm Turnbull, ‘Grocer Willis takes over the scales’, Nation Review, 30 January 1975, p. 391.
53 Malcolm Turnbull, ‘Gough Wran waits for orange light’, Nation Review, 13–19 February 1976, p. 435.
54 Malcolm Turnbull, ‘A boring election bad for NSW Labor’, Nation Review, 21 April 1976, p. 677.
55 Malcolm Turnbull, ‘Wran turns Labor’s fortunes in NSW’, Nation Review, 7–13 March 1976, p. 724.
56 Malcolm Turnbull, ‘NSW: The aftermath’, Nation Review, 14 May 1976, p. 753.
57 Malcolm Turnbull, ‘Not so flush with NSW funds’, Nation Review, 23 July 1976, p. 998.
58 Malcolm Turnbull, ‘Libs sleep over the issues’, Nation Review, 9 July 1976, p. 949.
59 Malcolm Turnbull, ‘Federalism puppy turns into a wolf’, Nation Review, 16 July 1976, p. 967.
60 Samantha Jonscher, ‘Peculiar Turnbullisms: Malcolm at Sydney Uni’, Honi Soit, 22 September 2015.
61 Richard Walsh, interview with author.
62 Malcolm Turnbull, The Spycatcher Trial, William Heinemann Australia, 1988, p. 2.
63 Mark Westfield, ‘Malcolm Turnbull: Law, journalism, business deals, banking’, The Australian, 21 September 2015.
64 Malcolm Turnbull, ‘The workers party gets moving’, Nation Review, 21 November 1975, p. 139 and ‘Workers party policy: open slather on the right’, Nation Review, 5 December 1975, p. 193.
65 Turnbull, The Spycatcher Trial, p. 2.
66 Ibid.
67 John O’Sullivan, personal communication with author.
68 Morris Iemma speaking on the ‘Retirement of Paul Mullins’, NSW Legislative Assembly, Hansard, 6 March 2008, p. 6052.
69 Malcolm Turnbull, correspondence with author, 2 October 2015.
70 Ellis, p. 141.
71 Crabb, ‘Stop at nothing’, pp. 13–14.
72 Malcolm Turnbull, ‘Turnbull lectures on the crisis of newspapers and the opinion epidemic’, The Conversation, 8 December 2011, https://theconversation.com/turnbull-lectures-on-the-crisis-of-newspapers-and-the-opinion-epidemic-4634
73 Ibid.; also Turnbull, The Spycatcher Trial, p. 3.
74 Crabb, ‘Stop at nothing’, p. 56.
75 ‘Rupert Murdoch’, A Current Affair, Channel Nine, 11 January 1977.
76 Ibid.
77 Ibid.
78 Ibid.
79 Gideon Haigh, ‘Packed it in: The demise of The Bulletin’, The Monthly, March 2008; Patricia Rolfe, The Journalistic Javelin: An Illustrated History of The Bulletin, Wildcat Press, 1979.
80 Chris Beck, ‘The Bulletin veers right’, Nation Review, 24 August 1973, p. 1408.
81 Greg Sheridan, When We Were Young and Foolish: A Memoir of Misguided Youth with Tony Abbott, Bob Carr, Malcolm Turnbull, Kevin Rudd and Other Reprobates, Allen & Unwin, 2015; see ch. 9, ‘Strange alliances’.
82 Paul Barry, The Rise and Rise of Kerry Packer: Uncut, Bantam, 2007, p. 433.
83 Malcolm Turnbull, ‘Long to reign over us?’ The Bulletin, 26 February 1977, pp. 60–3.
84 Ibid.
85 Ibid.
86 Irving Kristol, ‘The tragic death of socialism’, The Bulletin, 23 April 1977, pp. 70–4 and see the edition of 16 April that year for the big government cover story.
87 ‘New spotlight on the law’, The Bulletin, 19 March 1977, p. 44.
88 Malcolm Turnbull, ‘A radical on the High Court’, The Bulletin, 19 March 1977, pp. 38–41.
89 Ibid.
90 ‘They’re begowned’, Letters, The Bulletin, 2 April 1977, p. 4.
91 ‘Police excesses’, Letters, The Bulletin, 23 April 1977, p. 4.
92 ‘Four inaccuracies’, Letters, The Bulletin, 9 May 1977, p. 10.
93 Malcolm Turnbull, ‘Broken Hill battlefield far from cleared’, The Bulletin, 6 August 1977, p. 85.
94 ‘Let’s have some good healthy hatred’, The Bulletin, 25 June 1977, p. 86.
95 Malcolm Turnbull, ‘Time for Sir Garfield to sail away’, The Bulletin, 10 December 1977, p. 90.
96 Malcolm Turnbull, ‘The NT may still be South Australia’, The Bulletin, 12 November 1977, p. 91.
97 Trevor Sykes, interview with author.
98 Suellen O’Grady, personal communication with author.
99 Malcolm Turnbull, ‘The vicious world of student politics’, The Bulletin, 7 February 1978.
100 Michael Yabsley, interview with author.
101 Jim Waley, ‘Turnbull interview’, Channel Nine News, 18 August 1978.
102 Malcolm Turnbull, ‘It wasn’t Wright who was wrong’, The Bulletin, 24 September 1977, p. 98.
1 See ‘Will and Codicils of the Rt Hon Cecil John Rhodes, Rhodes Estate Act of 1916 and Rhodes Trust Act of 1929’, http://www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/rhodes-trust/key-governance-documents
2 Ibid., Rhodes Trust Modification Order 1976.
3 D.D. McNicoll, ‘Dux-hunting season’, The Australian, 19 September 2008.
4 Gary Newman, ‘Welcome to the Rhodes show’, SMH, 16 November 2010.
5 As recalled by Ita Buttrose in her one-on-one interview, ‘The rise and rise of Malcolm Turnbull’, Studio 10, Channel Ten, 6 May 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hotJXlpcbMs
6 Malcolm Turnbull, The Spycatcher Trial, William Heinemann Australia, 1988, pp. 2–3.
7 Ibid.
8 Imre Salusinszky, ‘Gaudeamus igitur—for Mal, me and duty free’, AFR, 7 July 1995.
9 Doug Aiton, ‘On monarchists, mates and mum’, Sunday Age, 8 August 1993.
10 Turnbull, ‘Turnbull lectures on the crisis of newspapers’, op. cit.
11 Turnbull, The Spycatcher Trial, p. 3.
12 Ibid., pp. 3–4.
13 Ibid.
14 Heath Aston, ‘Likeable rascal: Malcolm Turnbull’s Oxford report cards uncovered from the archives’, SMH, 18 August 2015.
15 Bob Ellis, And So It Went: Night Thoughts in a Year of Change, Viking, 2009, p. 141.
16 John Lyons, ‘Raging Turnbull’, SMH, 13 April 1991, pp. 23–30.
17 Personal communication with author.
18 Annabel Crabb, ‘Stop at nothing: The life and adventures of Malcolm Turnbull’, Quarterly Essay, Issue 34, 2009, p. 33.
19 Richard Ackland, ‘Love letters to a cat’, Justinian, republished on 16 September 2015, http://www.justinian.com.au/archive/love-letters-to-a-cat.html
20 Ibid.
21 Ibid.
22 Crabb, ‘Stop at nothing’, p. 33.
23 Ibid.
24 Lyons, op. cit.
25 Ibid.
26 Questions Without Notice, Hansard, 25 June 2009, p. 7237.
27 Malcolm Turnbull, ‘From silk to riches: Portrait of a $1000-a-day QC’, The Bulletin, 21 February 1978, pp. 38–45.
28 Ibid., p. 40.
29 Valerie Lawson, ‘Lord Lucy’, SMH, 12 April 2003.
30 Valerie Lawson, ‘The old silk road’, 1 June 2002; also Anne Stevens, The Hughes Family of Sydney 1840–2007, Kudos Studio, 2007, p. 453.
31 ‘Paths of Glory’, Australian Story, ABC TV, 3 August 2009, Lucy Turnbull transcript.
32 Sheridan, loc. 2823–7.
33 Ibid.
34 Turnbull, The Spycatcher Trial, p. 4.
35 Ibid.
36 Australian Story, Turnbull transcript.
37 Diana Fisher, ‘Here, there and everywhere’, The Australian Women’s Weekly, 16 April 1980, pp. 18–19.
38 Robin Amadio, ‘Going places’, The Australian Women’s Weekly, 8 October 1980, pp. 16–17.
39 Australian Story, Turnbull transcript.
40 Rosalind Reines, ‘Y fronts up with the toe tappers’, SMH, 15 August 1985.
41 Aston, op. cit.
42 John Sackar, interview with author.
43 Angela Bowne, ‘Malcolm Turnbull: 30, rich, and Kerry Packer’s lawyer’, BRW, 8 December 1984, pp. 76–81.
44 ‘Theodora’, Justinian, 10 July 2009.
45 Ellis, p. 11.
46 Greg Bearup, ‘Cory Bernardi: Gay marriage, bestiality and other political headaches’, The Weekend Australian Magazine, 27 June 2015.
47 Tony Abbott, Battlelines, MUP, 2009, pp. 18–19; Ellis, p. 10.
48 Peter Costello with Peter Coleman, The Costello Memoirs: The Age of Prosperity, MUP, 2008, p. 27.
49 Chris Masters, Jonestown: The Power and the Myth of Alan Jones, Allen & Unwin, 2006, p. 126.
50 Peter Coleman, interview with author.
51 Michael Yabsley, interview with author.
52 Paul Ellercamp, ‘Wentworth Liberals wanted a “local”’, Letters, SMH, n.d.
53 Tony Stephens, ‘Things we hear’, SMH, 22 March 1981, p. 141.
54 Nancy Berryman, ‘Federal Libs pick Coleman’, SMH, 15 March 1981.
55 ‘Local to the core’, Letters, SMH, 19 March 1981.
56 Teresa Mannix, ‘McMahon’s “suggestion for Lowe candidate”’, Canberra Times, 6 January 1982, p. 1.
57 Nick Greiner, interview with author
58 Ibid.
59 Bowne, op.cit.
60 Evan Whitton, ‘The making of Malcolm’, SMH, 6 June 1993, p. 27.
61 Aviation Safety Investigation Report 198201430, Piper PA28-161 Warrior, 11 November 1982.
62 ‘I’ll never forget says fatal plane crash witness’, SMH, 12 November 1982.
63 ‘Pilot negligent: court’, Canberra Times, 27 November 1993, p. 6. The NSW Supreme Court Library was unable to retrieve the judgement.
64 Australian Story, Turnbull transcript.
65 Turnbull, The Spycatcher Trial, p. 6.
66 Bill Bridges, interview with author.
67 Ibid.
1 Brian Toohey, ‘Delays over Costigan’s controversial recommendations’ and ‘Some cases from Costigan’s files’, The National Times, 14 September 1984, pp. 3–6.
2 Joe Costigan, interview with author.
3 Annabel Crabb, ‘Stop at nothing: The life and adventures of Malcolm Turnbull’, Quarterly Essay, Issue 34, 2009, p. 39.
4 Frank Costigan, Royal Commission on the Activities of the Federated Ship Painters and Dockers Union, Final Report, 1984, Vol. 1, ch. 1, pp. 4–5.
5 Adam Sutton, ‘Bottom of the harbour tax evasion schemes’ in Peter Grabosky and Adam Sutton (eds), Stains on a White Collar: Fourteen Studies in Corporate Crime or Corporate Harm, The Federation Press, 1989, pp. 1–14.
6 John Howard, The Menzies Era, HarperCollins, Kindle edition, ch. 24.
7 See Paul Barry, The Rise and Rise of Kerry Packer: Uncut, Bantam, 2007, p. 245.
8 Brian Toohey, ‘Film tax scheme tries to turn $100,000 production costs into $19m in deductions’, The National Times, 12 October 1984, p. 7; see also Barry, pp. 253–5.
9 Letter dated 12 July 1985 from J. Moczynski, Fraud Squad, Queensland Police Department, to the Chairman of the Costigan Royal Commission Inter-Departmental Committee, 22 pages.
10 Barry, pp. 249–50.
11 ‘Costigan inquiry will continue efforts to question packer over film venture’, The Weekend Australian, 5–6 November 1983, p. 3; see also Morling J., Harper & Ors v Costigan [1983] FCA 331, pp. 1–33.
12 Malcolm Turnbull, The Spycatcher Trial, William Heinemann Australia, 1988, p. 6.
13 Annabel Crabb, Kitchen Cabinet, series 3, episode 1, ABC TV, 2 July 2013.
14 Morling J., Harper & Ors v Costigan [1983] FCA 331, p. 10.
15 Costigan, Royal Commission, Final Report, Vol. 1, p. 119.
16 Ibid., p. 50.
17 Ibid., p. 53.
18 ‘Packer must appear, judge says’, SMH, 17 November 1983.
19 Barry, p. 252.
20 ‘Packer denies $225,000 came from tax scheme’, SMH, and ‘Packer took $225,000 loan “after betting losses”’, AFR, both on 15 February 1984; also Barry, op. cit.
21 Costigan, Royal Commission, Final Report, Vol. 1, ch. 3, p. 52.
22 Sections of the transcript-in-confidence of Kerry Packer’s evidence, including all the quotes used in this book, were either contained in the confidential volumes of Costigan’s final report, and excerpted by Brian Toohey and others in a series of articles in the National Times edition of 2 November 1984, headed ‘Costigan confidential’, pp. 3–8, or were republished by Brian Toohey in The Eye, August 1987, pp. 7–9. See also Paul Barry papers.
23 Toohey, ‘Costigan confidential’, p. 3.
24 Transcript-in-confidence, Kerry Packer evidence to Royal Commission on the Activities of the Federated Ship Painters and Dockers Union on 14 February 1984.
25 Ibid.
26 ‘The National Times—it is a changin”, New Journalist, pp. 7–10.
27 Marian Wilkinson, interview with author.
28 Geoff Kitney, ‘Where Hawke is vulnerable’, The National Times, 21 September 1984, pp. 7–9, including: ‘One minister put his views bluntly. The Costigan Commission had to be wound up. “He is ruining [Labor] in NSW,” he said.’ The article suggested the minister was treasurer Paul Keating, although he had denied it in parliament.
29 See Richard McGregor, ‘Evans said to have offered Costigan “bribe”’, SMH, 6 June 1984 and his ‘Costigan and Evans deny offer of “bribe”’, SMH, 7 June 1984.
30 Second reading, National Crime Authority Bill, Senate Hansard, 4 June 1984, p. 2457.
31 Ibid.
32 Gareth Evans, interview with author.
33 Letter from Frank Costigan to Don Stewart, dated 5 September 1984; cited in Colleen Ryan, Fairfax: The Rise and Fall, MUP, 2013, Kindle edition, loc. 854.
34 Questions Without Notice, National Crime Authority, Senate Hansard, 2 September 1984, p. 394.
35 Kerry Packer press release, 28 September 1984; reprinted in SMH, 29 September 1984.
36 Kitchen Cabinet.
37 Trevor Kennedy, ‘Packer and the new McCarthyism—A bill of rights is needed’, The Bulletin, 9 October 1984, pp. 26–7 and Trevor Sykes, ‘The new McCarthyism: Trial by smear’, The Bulletin, 13 November 1984, pp. 26–32.
38 Costigan, Royal Commission, Final Report, Vol. 1, p. 63.
39 Richard Coleman, ‘Why Willesee, the interrogator, apologised’, SMH, 24 November 1984.
40 Mike Willesee, ‘Costigan Royal Commission’, Willesee, Channel Nine, 1 November 1984.
41 Ibid.
42 George Langley, ‘Packer out to destroy Packer, inquest told’, The Australian, 6 December 1984.
43 Malcolm Brown, ‘No evidence of murder, Coote coroner decides’, SMH, 8 December 1984.
44 Dean Felton, ‘Coote inquest reaction’, Channel Nine News, 8 December 1984.
45 Brad Schmitt, ‘Costigan leak row’, Channel Nine News, 9 December 1984.
46 Ibid.
47 Cited in Packer v Meagher [1984] 3 NSWLR 486, 17 December 1984, p. 12.
48 Ibid., p. 14.
49 Ibid., p. 15.
50 Ibid., p. 18.
51 Ibid.
52 ‘Apology to Kerry Packer’, SMH, 26 April 1985.
53 Brian Toohey, interview with author.
54 Ibid.
55 Ryan, ch. 3, loc. 887.
56 Crabb, ‘Stop at nothing’, p. 40.
57 Ibid.
58 Margaret Simons, ‘Behind the Costigan leaks’, Crikey, 27 February 2006, http://www.crikey.com.au/2006/02/27/behind-the-costigan-leaks/?wpmp_switcher=mobile
59 Joe Costigan, interview with author.
60 Malcolm Turnbull, correspondence with author, 2 October 2015.
61 Prime Minister Robert Hawke, ‘Government’s response to Final Report of Royal Commission into the Activities of the Federated Ship Painters and Dockers Union’, 1 November 1984, p. 4.
62 Don Stewart, Recollections of an Unreasonable Man, ABC Books, 2007, p. 192.
63 Richard McGregor, ‘ABT asked to waive Costigan material’, SMH, 17 April 1985.
64 AAP, ‘PM farewells a “sentimental bloke”’, SMH, 17 February 2006, http://www.SMH.com.au/news/national/pm-farewells-a-sentimental-bloke/2006/02/17/1140064243817.html#
65 Turnbull, The Spycatcher Trial, p. 6.
66 Malcolm Turnbull, ‘Magna Carta and the rule of law in the digital age”, speech to the Sydney Institute, 7 July 2015; the comment was made during questions afterwards, listen at http://www.malcolmturnbull.com.au/media/speech-to-the-sydney-institute-magna-carta-and-the-rule-of-law-in-the-digit
67 ‘Max Gillies – Mike Walsh Show – TCN9 Pty Ltd, Draft Statement of Facts’, n.d., p. 2.
68 Ibid., p. 4.
69 Ibid.
70 Robyn Ferrell, ‘Licence tribunal to watch Gillies tape’, SMH, 17 July 1985 and ‘Channel 9 and union clash on Gillies ban’, SMH, 16 July 1985.
71 Barry, p. 294.
72 Ibid., ch. 15, note 6, p. 513.
1 Ben Hills, ‘The circus comes to town for Smiley versus MI5’, SMH, 6 November 1986. Reports conflict as to whether Peter Wright was actually the inspiration for John le Carré’s ‘Smiley’ character.
2 BBC Radio 4, ‘Spycatcher’, The Reunion, 5 April 2015, http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05pl2rq
3 Ibid.
4 Simon Freeman and Barrie Penrose, ‘Fiasco Down Under—The unmaking of Sir Robert’, The Sunday Times, 23 November 1986.
5 See Hills, ‘The circus comes to town for Smiley versus MI5’, op. cit.; a fictitious version of the offer appears in ‘The Spycatcher Trials’ by Bob Ellis and Stephen Ramsay, with Malcolm Turnbull, unpublished, held in the National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra.
6 Sandy Grant, interview with author.
7 Ellis and Ramsey, ‘The Spycatcher Trials’, 1991, parts 1 and 2, pp. 24–5.
8 Malcolm Turnbull, The Spycatcher Trial, William Heinemann Australia, 1988, p. 7.
9 Peter Wright with Paul Greengrass, Spycatcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer, Heinemann, 1987, p. 13.
10 Ibid., p. 7.
11 Ibid., p. 45.
12 Ibid., p. 166.
13 Ibid., p. 144.
14 BBC, ‘Spycatcher: Wright or wrong?’ Panorama, 13 October 1988.
15 Barrie Penrose and Simon Freeman, ‘How MI5 “plotted to topple Wilson”’, Sunday Times, 23 November 1986.
16 Phillip Knightley, ‘Spy V Spy’, SMH, 20 November 1986.
17 Wright, p. 54.
18 Ibid., p. 360.
19 Ibid., pp. 360–1.
20 Ibid., p. 367.
21 BBC Radio 4, ‘Spycatcher’, The Reunion, op. cit.
22 Turnbull, The Spycatcher Trial, pp. 22–3.
23 Ibid., p. 30.
24 Nicholas Wood, ‘MI5 mole admission denied’, The Times, 16 August 1988; ‘Callaghan calls for inquiry into MI5’, The Sunday Times, 17 August 1986.
25 BBC Radio 4, ‘Spycatcher’, The Reunion, op. cit.
26 Turnbull, The Spycatcher Trial, p. 75.
27 BBC Radio 4, ‘Spycatcher’, The Reunion, op. cit.
28 Freeman and Penrose, ‘Fiasco Down Under’, op. cit.
29 Joseph Lelyveld, ‘Australia trial leads London to order inquiry into security leaks’, The New York Times, 22 November 1986.
30 Turnbull, The Spycatcher Trial, pp. 137–8.
31 John Hunt, ‘Parliamentary sketch: Trail of the latest spy suspect starts to turn very hot’, Financial Times, 19 November 1986.
32 Turnbull, The Spycatcher Trial, p. 135.
33 Anthony Dennis, ‘Transactions’, SMH, 10 December 1986.
34 Ellis and Ramsey, parts 3 and 4, p. 8.
35 See the majority judgment in Attorney-General (United Kingdom) v Heinemann Publishers Australia Pty Ltd (1988) 165 CLR 30.
36 Turnbull, The Spycatcher Trial, p. 213.
37 Ibid., pp. 57–8.
38 ‘Out and about’, SMH, 21 November 1986 and Ian Wooldridge, ‘MI5 secrets—It’s just not cricket!’, SMH, 30 November 1986.
39 Turnbull, The Spycatcher Trial, pp. 15–16.
40 BBC Radio 4, ‘Spycatcher’, The Reunion, op. cit.
41 ‘Hollis/ASIO documents to go to ex–MI5 Agent, Judge Rules’, SMH, 6 November 1986.
42 Turnbull, The Spycatcher Trial, p. 150.
43 BBC Radio 4, ‘Spycatcher’, The Reunion, op. cit.
44 Stephen Taylor, ‘Sydney judge attacks Britain’s “Serpentine Weavings”’, The Times, 15 November 1986.
45 Powell J., A-G (U.K.) v Heinemann [1987] 8 NSWLR 341.
46 Ibid.
47 Karen DeYoung, ‘Aussies testing British secrecy; Crown seeks to quash ex-agent’s allegations of Soviet mole’, The Washington Post, 23 November 1986.
48 Ellis and Ramsey, parts 3 and 4, p. 49.
49 BBC Radio 4, ‘Spycatcher’, The Reunion, op. cit.
50 ‘MI5 decision’, Ten Eyewitness News, 13 March 1987, footage held at National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra.
51 Ibid.
52 Ibid.
53 BBC Radio 4, ‘Spycatcher’, The Reunion, op. cit.
54 Peter Hennessy, ‘The most public public servant since Cardinal Wolsey’, Contemporary Record, Vol. 1: Issue 4, p. 31.
55 Lord Armstrong, personal communication with author.
56 Ibid.
57 Ibid.
58 BBC Radio 4, ‘Spycatcher’, The Reunion, op. cit.
59 Mark Colvin, ‘Spycatcher trial prompted much needed intelligence reforms’, PM, ABC, 30 October 2009, http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2009/s2729136.htm
60 BBC Radio 4, ‘Spycatcher’, The Reunion, op. cit.
61 Phillip Knightley, interview with author.
62 BBC Radio 4, ‘Spycatcher’, The Reunion, op. cit.
63 Stephen Sedley, ‘Keeping mum’, London Review of Books, Vol. 11, No. 5, 2 March 1989.
64 Kim Williams, interview with author.
65 Malcolm Turnbull, ‘Political risk in making a martyr of Assange’, SMH, 9 December 2010.
66 Malcolm Turnbull, ‘On Spycatcher, Assange and freedom of the press’, Sydney University Law School, 31 March 2011.
67 Malcolm Maiden, ‘Pin-striped rebel,’ The Age, 2 August 1997, p. 25.
1 Trevor Kennedy, interviewed by Adam Shand for a Malcolm Turnbull profile on, Sunday, Channel Nine, 2 November 2003.
2 Profile, The Age, Saturday Extra, 10 December 1988, p. 1, no head- or byline.
3 Jane Cadzow, ‘Wonder boy Turnbull banks on a new career’, The Australian, 20 March 1987, p. 3.
4 Doug Aiton, ‘On monarchists, mates and mum’, Sunday Age, 8 August 1993.
5 Malcolm Maiden, ‘Pin-striped rebel’, The Age, 2 August 1997, p. 25.
6 Valerie Lawson, ‘Forever Nifty’, SMH, 28 December 1991, p. 27.
7 ‘The Big League’, Four Corners, ABC TV, 30 April 1983.
8 Lawson, ‘Forever Nifty’, op. cit.
9 Jonathan Chancellor, ‘Today’s people’, SMH, 24 November 1986, p. 29.
10 Jonathan Chancellor, ‘Today’s people’, SMH, 19 March 1987, p. 20.
11 Michael Perry, ‘How Wran cleans up’, The Sun-Herald, 11 October 1987, p. 18.
12 Ibid.
13 ‘Wran firm chalks up another loss’, SMH, 4 March 1989, p. 47.
14 Ben Hills, ‘A small check to Turnbull’s progress’, SMH, 15 August 1990, p. 3.
15 Louise Boylen, ‘Greiner’s privatising idea may benefit Neville Wran’, AFR, 3 August 1988, p. 3.
16 Paul Barry, The Rise and Rise of Kerry Packer: Uncut, Bantam, 2007, p. 311.
17 Story retold by Annabel Crabb at the launch of ‘Stop at nothing’, Quarterly Essay, http://www.themonthly.com.au/video/2013/03/24/1364103706/annabel-crabb-david-marr-life-and-adventures-malcolm-turnbull
18 Barry, p. 311; Obituary, ‘Kerry Francis Bullmore Packer 1937–2005’, The Age, 28 December 2005.
19 Nicholas Whitlam, Still Standing, Lothian, 2004, p. 136.
20 John Lyons, ‘Raging Turnbull’, SMH, 13 April 1991, pp. 23–30.
21 Ben Hills, ‘Whitlam–Turnbull: The truth behind a midnight coup’, SMH, 7 March 1990, p. 1.
22 Nicholas Whitlam, interview with author.
23 Hills, ‘Whitlam–Turnbull: The truth behind a midnight coup’, op. cit.
24 Ibid.
25 Mike Carlton, ‘New $100 million investment bank founded by Nick Whitlam’, 2GB, 18 March 1987.
26 Letter from Larry Adler to Nick Whitlam, dated 14 October 1987.
27 Whitlam, Still Standing, p. 138.
28 Mark Westfield, ‘Insider’, SMH, 24 October 1987.
29 Trevor Sykes, Operation Dynasty: How Warwick Took John Fairfax Ltd, Greenhouse Publications, 1989, pp. 311–12.
30 Colleen Ryan, Fairfax: The Rise and Fall, MUP, 2013, Kindle edition, loc. 1022.
31 Whitlam, Still Standing, p. 138.
32 Sykes, pp. 208–10.
33 Ibid., p. 195.
34 Glenn Burge, ‘CBD’, SMH, 10 November 1987.
35 Sykes, p. 236.
36 Ibid., p. 239.
37 Ibid., p. 240.
38 Whitlam, Still Standing, p. 138.
39 Sykes, p. 269; see also http://www.SMH.com.au/national/fairfax-media-charterof-editorial-independence-20120619-20l4t.html
40 Sykes, pp. 266–7.
41 Ibid., p. 270.
42 Ibid., pp. 270–1.
43 Suellen O’Grady, ‘What Malcolm wants, Malcolm gets’, SMH, 3 September 1988, p. 59.
44 Turi Condon, ‘Turnbull sells strata floors’, AFR, 6 April 1992, p. 45.
45 O’Grady, p. 62.
46 Ibid.
47 Alan Kohler, ‘ANZ–NML merger raises broader issues for Keating’, AFR, 6 April 1990.
48 Whitlam, Still Standing, p. 142.
49 Letter from Malcolm Turnbull to Judy Whitlam, 21 August 1989.
50 Whitlam, Still Standing, p. 143.
51 Legislative Assembly, Hansard, 30 August 1989, pp. 1400–1. Jim Clarko was Liberal member for Marmion for more than twenty years. Peter Dowding was Labor premier for two years from February 1988 until he was succeeded by Carmen Lawrence. Richard Court, then deputy leader of the opposition, was elected Liberal premier in 1993.
52 Nick Davies, ‘Tiny Rowland—Portrait of the bastard as a rebel’, first published in The Guardian, August 1990, http://www.nickdavies.net/1990/08/01/tiny-rowland-portrait-of-the-bastard-as-a-rebel/
53 Whitlam, Still Standing, p. 141.
54 ‘Goss avoids connection with Whitlam name’, National Reporter, Vol. 11, No. 3, 1 February 1990; fax from Wran to Kevin Rudd, dated 5 February 1990.
55 Eric Ellis, ‘Whitlam set to quit banking high-flier’, SMH, 22 February 1990.
56 Ben Hills, ‘Whitlam–Turnbull: The truth behind a midnight coup’, op. cit., p. 1.
57 Ibid.
58 ‘What’s next for Nicholas Whitlam?’ SMH, 23 February 1990.
59 Jonathan Chancellor, ‘Title Deeds’, SMH, 24 August 1991.
60 Ben Hills, ‘A small check to Turnbull’s progress’, SMH, 15 August 1990.
61 Ian Verrender, ‘CBD’, SMH, 18 September 1990.
62 Ian Verrender, ‘CBD’, SMH, 4 March and 6 March 1991.
1 Marian Wilkinson and Kate McClymont, ‘Operation Deceit’, SMH, 21 April 1990, p. 65.
2 Robert Milliken, ‘No action over Bond phone tap claims’, The Independent, 1 November 1990 and Tony Kaye, ‘DPP probe into Bond phone taps called off’, AFR, 8 November 1990.
3 Malcolm Turnbull, interview with Paul Barry.
4 Stephen Mayne, ‘Packer explodes Alan Bond myth’, Crikey, 27 October 2006.
5 Enough Rope with Andrew Denton, episode 31, transcript, ABC TV, 3 November 2003.
6 Robert Haupt, John Lyons and Deborah Light, ‘Packer’s power play’, SMH, 1 September 1990, p. 67.
7 Mark Westfield, The Gatekeepers: The Global Media Battle to Control Australia’s Pay TV, Pluto Press, 2000, pp. 52–5.
8 See for example, Mark Westfield, ‘Nine the winner if Ten is decimated’, SMH, 14 September 1990, p. 25.
9 Tom Burton and John Lyons, ‘Govt anger at no-frills plan for Ten’, SMH, 14 September 1990, p. 1.
10 Paul Syvret, ‘Cosser lives to fight another day’, SMH, 15 September 1990, p. 41.
11 Paul Syvret, ‘TPC “bans” Malcolm Turnbull from Ten’, 17 September 1990, p. 29.
12 Tom Burton, ‘Government sent out a clear TV signal’, SMH, 15 September 1990, p. 41.
13 Syvret, ‘Cosser lives’, op. cit.
14 Elizabeth Knight, ‘TPC opposed appointment of Turnbull at Ten’, SMH, 17 September 1990, p. 1; Ian Verrender, ‘CBD’, SMH, 18 September 1990.
15 Elizabeth Knight, ‘Turnbull considers legal action over TPC Ten ban’, 18 September 1990, p. 17.
16 Tom Burton, ‘Ten affair underlines the power struggle at Westpac’, 15 October 1990, p. 25.
17 Annabel Crabb, ‘Stop at nothing: The life and adventures of Malcolm Turnbull’, Quarterly Essay, Issue 34, 2009, p. 47.
18 Paul Syvret and Marian Wilkison, ‘No frills Ten was looked at by Cosser’, SMH, 19 September 1990, p. 38.
19 Ibid.
20 Jennifer Hewett and Elizabeth Knight, ‘How Turnbull lost out at Ten’, AFR, 21 September 1990, p. 1.
21 Ibid.
22 Marian Wilkinson and Paul Syvret, ‘Malcolm Turnbull’s trial by television’, SMH, 22 September 1996, p. 71.
23 Ibid.
24 Ibid.
25 Paul Syvret, ‘Cosser sacked, now programs face the axe’, SMH, 17 October 1990, p. 1.
26 John Hurst, ‘Turnbull seeks Fairfax role’, AFR, 31 October 1990, p. 25.
27 Colleen Ryan and Glenn Burge, Corporate Cannibals: The Taking of Fairfax, Heinemann, 1992, p. 9.
28 Ibid., pp. vii–x.
29 Alan Deans, ‘Night the US junk holders stalked John Fairfax’, SMH, 29 December 1990, p. 28.
30 Ryan and Burge, p. 43.
31 Ibid., p. 44.
32 Ian Verrender, ‘CBD’, SMH, 11 December 1990, p. 25.
33 Deborah Light and Glenn Burge, ‘Banks end the Fairfax era’, SMH, 11 December 1990; John Hurst and Elizabeth Knight, ‘Flood offers for Fairfax Group assets’, SMH, 12 December 1990, p. 1; John Kavanagh, ‘Buyers circle Fairfax as Warwick departs’, BRW, 14 December 1990, p. 22.
34 Roger Scott and Kevin Sadlier, ‘Why the TV empires have crashed’, The Sun-Herald, 16 September 1990, p. 18; ‘No Oscars for this version of network’, leader, SMH, 17 September 1990, p. 14; also Max Walsh, SMH, cited in Colleen Ryan, Fairfax: The Rise and Fall, MUP, 2014.
35 Ryan and Burge, pp. 26–7.
36 ‘Paths of Glory’, Australian Story, ABC TV, 3 August 2009.
37 Marian Christy, ‘Coral, the writing Lansbury’, The Boston Globe, 20 December 1987. On her death Malcolm Turnbull said, ‘She was terribly brave, she finished The Grotto while under chemotherapy and had not wanted anyone to know she was sick’: Coral Lansbury obituary, SMH, 4 April 1991, p. 12.
38 Australian Story.
39 Glenn Fowler, ‘Coral Lansbury, 61, a novelist and victorian scholar, is dead’, New York Times, 4 April 1991.
40 Coral Lansbury, ‘What snools these mortals be’, The New York Times, 17 January 1988.
41 Coral Lansbury, ‘Lilith was the other woman’, The New York Times, 28 August 1988.
42 Fay Weldon, ‘A slattern and a scholar’, The New York Times, 8 November 1987.
43 Deirdre Macken, ‘Malcolm’s mum, the writer and feminist’, SMH, 18 October 1988.
44 Ibid.
45 Ibid.
46 Valerie Grove, ‘Famecatcher grows rich and looks for new worlds to win’, Sunday Times, 16 October 1988.
47 Macken, op. cit.
48 Australian Story.
49 Ibid.
50 Emma Pryer, ‘Turnbull moved to tears’, Sunday Telegraph, 12 August 2007.
51 See Malcolm Turnbull’s speech at the launch of The ADB’s Story, 5 December 2013, http://malcolmturnbull.com.au/media/book-launch-the-adbs-story
52 Doug Aiton, ‘On monarchists, mates and mum’, Sunday Age, 8 August 1993, p. 3.
53 Annabel Crabb, Kitchen Cabinet, series 3, episode 1, ABC TV, 2 July 2013; Australian Story; see also Douglas Aiton, ‘Foreword—10 things you didn’t know about … Malcolm Turnbull’, The Australian Magazine, 17 February 2007: ‘He can remember her sitting on the sofa, dictating lines to a secretary such as “Why will you not marry me?” and “Put that gun away”.’
54 Ryan, loc. 1370.
55 Max Hastings, Editor: An Inside Story of Newspapers, Macmillan, 2002, quoted in Andrew Hornery with Ben Wyld, ‘Stompin’ at the Savoy with Packer’, SMH, 9 October 2002.
56 Ryan and Burge, pp. 162–3.
57 Malcolm Turnbull, interview with Glenn Burge, with permission.
58 Paul Barry, The Rise and Rise of Kerry Packer: Uncut, Bantam, 2007; Ryan and Burge, p. 298, write similarly: ‘the depth of opposition to Packer’s involvement in Tourang had made Packer more determined than ever to end up as a shareholder in Fairfax. Packer was determined to ride this one out. His ego and his family name were on the line.’
59 Ryan and Burge, p. 310.
60 Bina Brown, ‘Packer’s evidence unjust’, AFR, 19 March 1992, p. 5.
61 Ryan and Burge, p. 330.
62 Four Corners, ABC TV, 16 March 1992.
63 Ryan and Burge, pp. 344–5.
64 Sarah Ferguson, ‘My brilliant career’, Four Corners, ABC TV, 25 August 2008.
65 Crabb, ‘Stop at nothing’, pp. 52–3.
66 Barry, p. 449.
67 Turnbull, interview with Glenn Burge, with permission.
68 Ferguson, Four Corners, op. cit.
69 Glenn Burge, interview with author.
1 Hamish Fitzsimmons, ‘Turnbull’s green credentials challenged’, AM, ABC Radio, ABC transcripts, 30 September 2004.
2 Simon Davies, ‘“Spycatcher” lawyer takes over Axiom’, South China Morning Post, 3 December 1991, and ‘Axiom chairman confident of resuming trade’, South China Morning Post, 1 January 1992; Jeni Porter, ‘Turnbull’s trees turn to gold’, ‘CBD’, SMH, 15 June 1992.
3 Ian Frazer, ‘The struggle for control of Solomon Island forests’, The Contemporary Pacific, Vol. 9, No. 1, Spring 1997, p. 47.
4 Louise Lucas, ‘HK Macau offer succeeds’, South China Morning Post, 28 July 1992.
5 Kathy Griffin, ‘Axiom Forest Resources pledge on logging forests’, South China Morning Post, 3 June 1991.
6 Fitzsimmons, op. cit.
7 Ibid.
8 Kate Askew, Dot.bomb Australia: How We Wrangled, Conned and Argie-Bargied Our Way into the New Digital Universe, Allen & Unwin, 2011, pp. 24–5.
9 Michael Dwyer, ‘Bond uni head quits in appointments row’, AFR, 12 February 1992, p. 3 and Ian Verrender, ‘Turnbull not out to float new friendships’, SMH, 23 August 1994.
10 Michael Pascoe, ‘Extraordinary items’, Business Sunday, Channel Nine, 22 November 1992.
11 Robert Weatherdon, ‘Back seat for Turnbull’, Bourse Sauce, AFR, 24 November 1992.
12 Sheryle Bagwell, ‘Former allies in a set-to at Fairfax AGM’, AFR, 26 November 1992.
13 Mark Westfield, The Gatekeepers: The Global Media Battle to Control Australia’s Pay TV, Pluto Press, 2000, p. 158.
14 Ben Hills, ‘Rupert’s killer of a deal’, SMH, 1 February 2003.
15 Westfield, The Gatekeepers, p. 345.
16 Robert Weatherdon, ‘Magnificent Seven mum on millions’, Bourse Sauce, AFR, 2 February 1993.
17 Emilya Mychasuk, ‘Turnbull’s fortunes flag’, SMH, 7 January 1994.
18 Vicki Smiles, ‘Australian gold boosts UK fund’, AFR, 21 March 1994.
19 ‘Survey of Russia—Better investment climate’, Financial Times, 27 June 1994.
20 Alan Deans, ‘From media to mining: Turnbull’s 24-carat play’, AFR, 4 January 1994.
21 John Helmer, ‘Star eager to begin Russian venture’, BRW, 21 March 1994.
22 Kate Askew and Kate McClymont, ‘Staff depart as old row returns to haunt Turnbull’, SMH, 11 September 2004.
23 ‘Star venture gets big Siberia gold lease’, Reuters, 12 December 1994; also Ian Howarth, ‘Star finalises goldmine deal’, AFR, 12 December 1994.
24 Malcolm Turnbull, correspondence with author, 2 October 2015.
25 John Helmer, ‘Star lifts the veil on its Russian prize’, BRW, 29 July 1996 and Robert Haupt, ‘Star expects go-ahead on Russian gold’, AFR, 30 August 1996.
26 ‘Star shares in limbo over court ruling’, Reuters, 7 April 1997 and John Willcock, ‘Star mining chief in talks to save stake in Russian Gold’, The Independent, 19 April 1997.
27 Robin Bromby, ‘Mining—news in brief’, The Australian, 13 October 1997.
28 Ros Reines, ‘Mystery of the ex-wife’, Guess Who Don’t Sue, Sunday Telegraph, 29 July 2001.
29 ‘Wran signs $110m lead, zinc joint venture deal with China’, Canberra Times, 5 August, 1994; Ian Howarth, ‘Pinnacle ready for China enterprise’, AFR, 6 July 1995; ‘Pinnacle eyes China zinc project’, Reuters, 6 March 1996; ‘Economic relationship with China gains traction with PM’s connections’, AFR, 16 September 2015.
30 Ian Thomas, ‘Australia Air plans $55m float to take off into overseas market’, AFR, 28 February 1994 and ‘Kennet’s Flier—A $5 million gift’, AFR, 23 March 1994 and ‘Discount shares in airline for Turnbull’, AFR, 19 April 1994 and ‘Australia Air float collapses’, AFR, 31 May 1994; also Andrew Main and Rowena Stretton, Rear Window, AFR, 5 August 1994; and Martin Chulov, ‘Spruikers are back’, The Sun-Herald, 9 July 1995.
31 ASIC v Doyle [2002] WASC 223 (17 September 2002).
32 Kathryn House and Jonathan Chancellor, ‘Boomerang rings up $6.6m sale price’, SMH, 17 September 1993.
33 ‘BRW rich families list 2014: Saunders family’, BRW, 21 August 2014, http://www.brw.com.au/p/lists/rich-families/2014/brw_rich_families_list_saunders_ERuIVXK4dmmNUHqnioE4SP
34 Rosanne Robertson, ‘Zut alors! Another waterfront mansion’, SMH, 31 March 1988 and Jonathan Chancellor, ‘Title Deeds’, SMH, 19 March 1994.
35 Jonathan Chancellor, ‘Rebuilding boom in waterfront properties’, SMH, 24 February 1996.
36 Jonathan Chancellor, ‘Title Deeds’, SMH, 6 March 1999.
37 Jonathan Chancellor, ‘Turnbull pad on market’, SMH, 10 November 2010.
38 Georgina Suttor, Michael Suttor: Master of Proportion, http://michaelsuttor.com.au/book/
39 ‘Paths of Glory’, Australian Story, ABC TV, 3 August 2009.
40 Ibid.
41 Mathew Kidman, ‘Howard’s way is making a mint twice over’, SMH, 14 April 1998.
42 Sally Jackson, ‘Multimedia millionaires’, The Australian, 14 September 1996.
43 Andrew Colley, ‘OzEmail trio presses delete on 18-year association’, The Australian, 28 March 2012.
44 Jackson, op. cit.
45 Askew, p. 27.
46 David Spence, interview with author.
47 Andrew White, ‘Remembrance silence also for Sweeney’, The Australian, 12 November 1997.
48 Max Walsh, ‘OzEmail facing nervous times’, AFR, 6 June 1996.
49 John Davidson, ‘OzEmail surfs in on US float and surprises itself with $55m raising’, AFR, 31 May 1996.
50 Andrew Main, Rear Window, AFR, 17 January 1997.
51 Grant Butler and Simon Hoyle, ‘OzEmail listing makes a little history’, AFR, 18 May 1998.
52 Peter Witts, ‘OzEmail delivers the goods’, The Australian, 30 May 1998.
53 John Davidson, ‘Telecom dreaming’, AFR, 6 December 1996, p. 3.
54 Ivor Ries, ‘There’s not much net profit about’, AFR, 17 October 1998.
55 Askew, p. 29.
56 Ian Grayson, ‘MCI gets OzEmail for $520m’, The Australian, 15 December 1998. Telecommunications analyst Paul Budde told Grayson: ‘Optus doesn’t know where it is going as a company. You have to make swift decisions in this market and the company is not in a position to do that.’
57 Emma Blake, ‘OzEmail dives as AOL arrives’, Daily Telegraph, 8 October 1998.
58 Clive Mathieson, ‘OzEmail seeks US$250m’, The Australian, 12 August 1998.
59 ‘Worldcom to bid for OzEmail’, Reuters, 13 December 1998; see also Mark Hollands, ‘Internet pioneer leaves a rich legacy’, The Australian, 15 December 1998.
60 Askew, p. 30.
61 David Spence, interview with author.
62 Trevor Sykes, ‘Takeover puts cheques in the OzEmail’, AFR 15 December 1998.
63 Kate Askew and Kate McClymont, ‘Malcolm in the middle’, SMH, 25 September 2004; Andrew Main, ‘How Malcolm Turnbull has managed to keep poverty away’, The Australian, 18 September 2008.
64 Michael West, ‘The shame is big dodgers slip the net’, The Age, 10 July 2014.
65 Grant Butler, ‘OzEmail powers up after loss’, AFR, 15 May 1998.
66 John Davidson, ‘OzEmail falls foul of parental formula’, AFR, 5 January 2000.
67 John Davidson, ‘Turnbull buys OzEmail’s prize asset’, AFR 29 March 2000.
68 Colin Kruger, ‘OzEmail mob to buy out Webcentral’, SMH, 27 July 2004.
69 Colin Kruger, ‘dotcomback time?’ SMH, 31 July 2004.
70 Ben Woodhead, ‘Turnbulls pocket more internet profits’, AFR, 23 May 2006.
71 Colley, op. cit.
72 Letters, The Australian, 16 September 2010, p. 15.
1 Andrew White, ‘Nice work if you can get it, Malcolm’, The Australian, 30 July 1997.
2 Trevor Sykes, ‘Turnbull to head Goldman Sachs’, AFR, 30 July 1997.
3 Matt Taibbi, ‘The great American bubble machine’, Rolling Stone, 5 April 2010, http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-great-american-bubble-machine-20100405
4 Roger Hogan, ‘Crucial stage reached as the global aspirants sort out their positions’, AFR, 27 October 1997.
5 John Durie, ‘Confusion over RBA timing’, AFR, 31 July 1997; Ivor Ries, ‘Carr moves fast on power play’, AFR, 12 December 1997.
6 John Durie, ‘NSW power-play pot of gold’, AFR, 29 January 1998.
7 Alex Mitchell, ‘Why have Iemma and Costa woken the privatisation gorilla?’ Crikey, 6 February 2008, http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/02/06/why-haveiemma-and-costa-woken-the-privatisation-gorilla/?wpmp_switcher=mobile
8 Andrew White and Boo Bailey, ‘Fay-Merrill win reform without power’, The Australian, 3 February 1998.
9 Andrew Main, Other People’s Money: The Complete Story of the Extraordinary Collapse of HIH, HarperCollins, 2003, p. 133.
10 Notes from meeting with Rodney Adler, GSAC.0001.023.
11 Turnbull to Henry Cornell, 2 January 1998, GSAC.0001.040.
12 Main, Other People’s Money, p. 103.
13 Ibid., p. 117.
14 Ibid., p. 138.
15 Turnbull to James Del Favero, 1 April 1998, GSAC.0008.122.
16 Rodney Adler, speech to the Goldman Sachs Group, New York, 15 June 1998, GSAC.0008.033.
17 Memorandum from Malcolm Turnbull et. al. to Michael Pruzan and Alec Maciels, Goldman Sachs, 7 September 1998, SBA339277.
18 It forms the opening scene of Andrew Main’s excellent book Other People’s Money.
19 Rodney Adler, ‘Advice re Adler family sale of shares and directors statement’, FAI statement to ASX, 23 September 1998.
20 Turnbull to John Landerer, 28 September 1998, GSAC.0001.676.042.
21 Lea Paterson, ‘Goldman picks 57 new partners’, The Independent, 21 October 1998.
22 Tracy Corrigan, ‘Cohen given Goldman partnership’, Financial Times, 2 October 1998.
23 Fred Brenchley, ‘Goldman Sachs has $49bn listing price’, AFR, 4 June 1998.
24 Clive Mathieson, ‘Mergers set a cracking pace’, The Australian, 24 August 1998; Goldman Sachs topped the league tables for takeover mandates in 1998, according to Corporate Adviser Securities Data, with $7 billion in deals; for the Telstra role see Roger Hogan, ‘Crucial stage reached as the global aspirants sort out their positions’, AFR, 27 October 1997.
25 Andrew White and Edwin Huxley, ‘Turnbull in Goldman bosom’, The Australian, 22 October 1998.
26 Kate Askew, ‘Came in on the grouter’, SMH, 6 July 2001.
27 Debbie Whitmont, ‘Odds on to fail’, Four Corners, ABC TV, 2 July 2001, transcript http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/s321985.htm
28 Malcolm Turnbull, correspondence with author, 2 October 2015.
29 ‘Turnbull to leave Goldman’, Daily Telegraph, 5 July 2001.
30 Norman O’Bryan opening address, transcript, 29 April 2002, p. 5884.
31 Turnbull XXN by Ms Dodds-Streeton, p. 6310.
32 Jennifer Hewett, ‘Malcolm in the muddle’, SMH, 18 May 2002.
33 Luke Mcllveen, ‘Corridor testimony puts the evidence in a spin’, The Australian, 7 May 2002.
34 Stephen Downie, ‘Turnbull reports the media’, Daily Telegraph, 14 May 2002.
35 Turnbull XXN by Ms Dodds-Streeton, pp. 6313–14.
36 Turnbull XXN by Ms Dodds-Streeton, p. 6333.
37 Malcolm Turnbull, correspondence with author, 2 October 2015.
38 Andrew White, ‘Turnbull memo key to HIH’, The Australian, 25 May 2002.
39 Turnbull XXN by Mr Jukovic, 13 May 2002, p. 6303.
40 Main, Other People’s Money, pp. 146–7.
41 I am indebted to Colleen Ryan and Andrew Main, ‘When businessmen fall out’, AFR, 18 May 2002 for this classification.
42 Turnbull XXN, 13 May 2002, p. 6371.
43 HIH Royal Commission, The Failure of HIH Insurance, Vol. I, ‘A corporate collapse and its lessons’, April 2003, p. 221.
44 Malcolm Turnbull, correspondence with author, 2 October 2015.
45 Andrew Main, ‘One-time banker done with HIH, but scandal isn’t done with him’, The Australian, 17 September 2008.
46 Malcolm Turnbull, ‘Public comment regarding HIH Royal Commission Report’, 16 April 2003.
47 Cosima Marriner, ‘Turnbull “unfit” for public office, Latham says’, SMH, 15 January 2003.
48 Mark Latham, Corporations Amendment (Repayment Of Directors’ Bonuses) Bill 2002, House Hansard, 10 February 2003, p. 11326.
49 Andrew Main, ‘Turnbull faces court claim over HIH’, AFR, 27 September 2004.
50 Andrew Main, ‘Turnbull accuses liquidator’, AFR, 24 February 2006.
51 HIH Insurance Limited (in liquidation) and Anor v Rodney, Stephen Adler and Ors [2007] NSWSC 633 (22 June 2007); see also Susannah Moran, ‘Judge rules HIH case must go on’, AFR, 23 June 2007.
52 Elisabeth Sexton, ‘Turnbull accused of deceiving directors’, SMH, 18 October 2007.
53 Marsha Jacobs, ‘HIH liquidators seek to recover $529m’, AFR, 22 February 2008; Marsha Jacobs, ‘HIH liquidators wasting time, court told’, AFR, 20 March 2008; Elisabeth Sexton, ‘HIH case keeps getting bigger’, SMH, 3 September 2008.
54 Elisabeth Sexton, ‘HIH cloud lifts for Turnbull’, SMH, 18 September 2008; and Andrew Main, ‘HIH score settled for Malcolm’, The Australian, 13 March 2009.
55 Senator Stephen Conroy, Questions Without Notice, Senate Hansard, Wednesday, 18 March 2009.
1 Malcolm Turnbull, Fighting for the Republic: The Ultimate Insider’s Account, Hardie Grant, 1999, p. vi.
2 Malcolm Turnbull, Reluctant Republic, William Heinemann Australia, 1993, p. v.
3 Ibid.
4 Ibid., pp. 1–3.
5 Malcolm Turnbull, ‘G’day and goodbye! After 200 years, many Australians wonder if it is time to break with the old country and become a republic’, The Sunday Times, 31 January 1988.
6 Mark McKenna, Captive Republic: A History of Republicanism in Australia 1788–1996, Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. 245–6.
7 McKenna, p. 5.
8 Donald Horne, The Lucky Country: Australia in the Sixties, Penguin, 1964, pp. 88–91.
9 McKenna, p. 234.
10 Ibid., p. 235.
11 Thomas Keneally, Our Republic, p. 77 cited in McKenna, p. 250.
12 Turnbull, Reluctant Republic, p. 187.
13 McKenna, p. 251.
14 Turnbull, Reluctant Republic, p. 191.
15 Ibid., pp. 192–3.
16 Ibid., p. 193.
17 ‘Republic move’, A Current Affair, Channel Nine, 8 July 1991.
18 Mike Willesee, ‘Republic debate’, A Current Affair, Channel Nine, 29 April 1993.
19 Susan Borham, ‘Inside Sydney’, SMH, 23 October 1993.
20 David Koch, Face to Face, Channel Seven, 6 July 1997.
21 Christopher Zinn, ‘Off with Queen’s head, says Australia’, The Observer, 9 November 1997.
22 Tony Abbott, Battlelines, MUP, 2009, p. 39.
23 Annabel Crabb, ‘Stop at nothing: The life and adventures of Malcolm Turnbull’, Quarterly Essay, Issue 34, 2009, p. 6.
24 Graham Richardson, ‘The man who would be king’, The Bulletin, 28 October 2003, pp. 30–2.
25 Greg Combet, Fights of My Life, MUP, 2014, Kindle edition, ch. 4.
26 Gareth Evans, interview with author.
27 Doug Aiton, ‘On monarchists, mates and mum’, Sunday Age, 8 August 1993.
28 Liz Jackson, ‘Battle Royal’, Four Corners, ABC TV, 27 October 1997.
29 Robert Milliken, ‘Aussies get personal in attack on royalty’, Independent On Sunday, 9 November 1997.
30 Turnbull, Fighting for the Republic, p. 26 citing SMH, 13 September 1997.
31 Australian Electoral Commission, 1997 Constitutional Convention Election Report and Statistics, p. 81.
32 Steve Vizard, Two Weeks in Lilliput: Bear-baiting and Backbiting at the Constitutional Convention, Penguin, 1998.
33 Virginia Trioli, ‘Liberty, equality, fratricide’, The Bulletin, 4 May 1999, pp. 36–7.
34 Vizard, p. 275.
35 Graham Davis, ‘Constitutional Convention Week I’, Sunday, Channel Nine, 8 February 1998.
36 Pat O’Shane, interview with author.
37 Graham Davis, ‘Constitutional Convention Week II’, Sunday, Channel Nine, 15 February 1998.
38 Ibid.
39 Vizard, p. 342.
40 Graham Davis, ‘Constitutional Convention Week I’, 8 February 1998.
41 Turnbull, Fighting for the Republic, p. 71.
42 Vizard, pp. 334–5.
43 Ibid., p. 339.
44 Ibid., p. 345.
45 Graham Davis, ‘Constitutional Convention Week II’, 15 February 1998.
46 Ibid.
47 Vizard, p. 356.
48 John Howard, Lazarus Rising, HarperCollins, 2010, p. 326.
49 Mike Steketee, ‘Business joins push to republic’, The Australian, 23 January 1999.
50 Turnbull, Fighting for the Republic, p. 82.
51 Ibid., p. 110.
52 Mark Day, ‘Time for ARM to stretch into final phase’, Daily Telegraph, 18 February 1998.
53 Malcolm Turnbull, ‘ARM’s win a triumph of guts’, The Australian, 27 February 1998.
54 Turnbull, Fighting for the Republic, p.81.
55 Trioli, p. 36.
56 Ibid.
57 Ibid., p. 37.
58 Greg Barns, ‘The republic diaries’, SMH, 11 December 1999, pp. 44–5.
59 Ibid.
60 Turnbull, Fighting for the Republic, p. 210.
61 Ibid., pp. 244–5.
62 Helen Dalley, ‘Referendum breakout: The night that was’, Sunday, Channel Nine, 7 November 1999.
63 Ted Mack, interview with author.
64 Barns, pp. 44–45.
65 Turnbull, Fighting for the Republic, p. 232.
66 Dalley, op. cit.
67 Judith Ireland, ‘Bill Shorten calls for Australian republic by 2025 at Labor national conference’, SMH, 24 July 2015, http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/bill-shorten-calls-for-australian-republic-by-2025-at-labor-national-conference-20150724-gijpb0.html#ixzz3jDX10IeT
68 Will Glasgow, ‘When Malcolm Turnbull met Peter FitzSimons in the Qantas Chairman’s Club’, Rear Window, AFR, 30 August 2015.
69 Peter FitzSimons, interview with author.
70 Lindsay Tanner, ‘Time’s up for the Turnbull republic’, The Age, 17 September 2002.
71 Greg Barns, interview with author.
72 Tim Mayfield, interview with author.
73 Thomas Keneally, ‘Reflections on the old Australian Republican Movement’, in Benjamin Jones and Mark McKenna (eds), Project Republic: Plans and Arguments for a New Australia, Black Inc., 2013, Kindle edition, ch. 3.
74 Peter FitzSimons, interview with author.
75 @Peter_Fitz, 16 Feb 2015 https://twitter.com/Peter_Fitz/status/567242271901224962
1 Josephine Brouard, ‘My best investment’, AFR, 29 October 1999.
2 Mark Skelsey, ‘Frank and Lucy show/Sartor chooses running mate’, Daily Telegraph, 12 February 1999.
3 Brouard, op. cit.
4 Ibid.
5 Christine Hogan, ‘See Lucy run’, The Sun-Herald, 29 August 1999.
6 Robert Hughes, ‘My brush with mortality’, The Observer, 10 October 1999.
7 Mark Russell, ‘Author trapped in wreck feared fire’, Daily Telegraph, 31 May 1999.
8 Valerie Lawson, ‘After legal jousting and vitriol, Hughes fined in absentia for car crash’, SMH, 15 April 2003.
9 Malcolm Turnbull, Fighting for the Republic, Hardie Grant, 1999, p. 224.
10 Jo Casamento and Philippa Walsh, ‘Hughes finding his feet’, Daily Telegraph, 13 August 1999.
11 John Laws, ‘From behind the golden microphone’, Sunday Telegraph, 8 August 1999.
12 Susan Kurosawa, ‘Pale tales of the city’, The Australian, 16 October 1999.
13 Alex Buzo, ‘The Emerald City in four takes’, SMH, 25 September 1999.
14 Daphne Guinness, ‘Saga of the city’, SMH, 31 July 1999.
15 ‘Lord Mayor of Sydney sexual harassment allegations’, Questions Without Notice, NSW Legislative Council, Hansard, 8 September 1999, p. 65 in ‘Report On Inquiry into statements made by Mr Gallacher and Mr Hannaford’ Standing committee on Parliamentary privilege and ethics, Legislative Council, Parliament of New South Wales, 30 November 1999, Appendix 1, p. 1.
16 Hon. Jeffrey Shaw, ‘Lord Mayor of Sydney sexual harassment allegations’, NSW Legislative Council, Hansard, 8 September 1999.
17 ‘Report on inquiry into statements made by Mr Gallacher and Mr Hannaford’, Standing Committee on Parliamentary Privilege and Ethics, NSW Legislative Council, 30 November 1999.
18 Lucy Turnbull, ‘Poisonous Sartor attack cowardly and contrived’, The Daily Telegraph, 10 September 1999.
19 Ibid.
20 Miranda Devine, ‘Liberal buffoonery knows no bounds’, The Daily Telegraph, 14 September 1999.
21 Turnbull, Fighting for the Republic, pp. 118, 152.
22 Tim Jamieson, ‘Turnbull writes name in city’s historic files’, SMH, 21 September 1999.
23 Alex Mitchell, ‘The first word’, The Sun-Herald, 27 February 2000.
24 Mike Steketee, ‘Being Malcolm Turnbull—He’s bright, he’s rich, he’s supremely ambitious. But is he a politician? What Malcolm wants’, The Weekend Australian Magazine, 29 November 2003.
25 Adam Shand, ‘Malcolm Turnbull’, Sunday, Channel Nine, 2 November 2003.
26 Antony Loewenstein, ‘Taking back the power: Hanan Ashrawi’, in Margo Kingston, Not Happy John: Defending our Democracy, Penguin, 2004, p. 244.
27 Ibid., p. 256
28 Rosemary Neill, ‘Lucy Turnbull: Labor was out to get me over Malcolm’, The Australian, 26 September 2015.
29 Anne Davies, ‘Merger most foul’, SMH, 17 January 2004.
30 Rachel Rodda and Sasha Westwood, ‘Malcolm not so festive at the big launch party’, The Daily Telegraph, 10 January 2000.
31 Alexandra Kirk, ‘Malcolm Turnbull defends political moves’, ABC, 10 October 2003.
32 Michael Duffy, ‘Party bomb has started to tick’, The Daily Telegraph, 6 January 2001.
33 Lincoln Wright, ‘PM backs republican Turnbull for spot on think-tank board’, The Canberra Times, 22 December 2000.
34 Valerie Lawson, ‘Battle of Liberal princes claims its first ego’, SMH, 3 February 2001.
35 Michelle Grattan, ‘Ready to run’, SMH, 8 December 2001.
36 Jason Koutsoukis, ‘Why Malcolm’s dream is the Libs’ nightmare’, AFR, 11 October 2003.
37 Grattan, op. cit.
38 Emilya Mychasuk and Pilita Clark, ‘Howard and his team rented by the hour’, SMH, 13 June 2001, p. 1.
39 Sean Nicholls, ‘Treasurer for sale: Joe Hockey offers privileged access’, SMH, 5 May 2014.
40 Michael Yabsley, interview with author.
41 Professor Brian Caldwell and John Roskam, ‘Australia’s Education Choices’, Menzies Research Centre, April 2002.
42 Lachlan Johnston, Rear Window, AFR, 16 October 2002.
43 Summary of Findings for the Prime Ministerial Task Force on Home Ownership, Menzies Research Centre, June 2003, p. 4.
44 Ibid., p. 13.
45 John Garnaut, ‘Young man in a hurry’, SMH, 3 July 2003.
46 Malcolm Turnbull, ‘It’s the birth rate, stupid! Facing up to fertility’, speech delivered at the National Population Summit, Adelaide, 21 November 2003.
47 Ibid.
48 Ibid.
49 ‘Liberal Party treasurer Malcolm Turnbull wants more Australian women to produce more children in what he calls a fertility crisis, he also supports paid maternity leave’, News, ABC TV, 1 January 2002, courtesy National Film and Sound Archive.
50 Tony Stephens, ‘The great persuader’, SMH, 16 July 1994.
51 Tony Stephens, ‘Fishers of men spread their net—on the internet’, SMH, 9 July 1998.
52 Michael Kelly, interview with author.
53 Peter Stanford, ‘Gerard W Hughes obituary’, The Guardian, 7 November 2014, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/06/gerard-w-hughes
54 Bob Carr, interview with author.
55 See Tony Walker, ‘The group’, AFR, 4 May 2002, p. 26.
56 Michael Yabsley, interview with author.
57 Paul Sheehan, ‘One candidate’s branch-stack is another’s grassroots democracy’, SMH, 29 September 2003.
58 Koutsoukis, op. cit.
59 Tony Walker, ‘Toxic politics at the top’, AFR, 4 October 2003.
60 Elisabeth Sexton, ‘What a swell party’, SMH, 11 October 2003.
61 Matt Peacock, ‘Turnbull prepares for third tilt’, 7.30 Report, ABC TV, ABC transcripts, 26 February 2004.
62 Jason Koutsoukis, ‘Besieged King given loyal nod’, AFR, 17 October 2003.
63 Sexton, op. cit.
64 Michelle Grattan, ‘Branch stack bruising for blue-ribbon seat’, Sunday Age, 19 October 2003.
65 Wayne Errington and Peter van Onselen, ‘X Files are keeping odds stacked in favour of MPs’, SMH, 21 October 2003.
66 Anne Davies, Kate Askew and Mark Riley, ‘As blood-letting mounts, Turnbull’s hopes take a knock’, SMH, 15 October 2003.
67 Michael Yabsley, interview with author.
68 Morgan Mellish, ‘Wentworth’s dilemma: safe v the unknown’, AFR, 21 February 2004.
69 Morgan Mellish, ‘Turnbull v King’, AFR, 13 February 2004, ‘Libs reject Turnbull move’, AFR, 14 February 2004, and ‘Turnbull’s bid for seat splits Lib senior ranks’, AFR, 16 February 2004.
70 John Hyde Page, Education of a Young Liberal, MUP, 2006, p. 283.
71 Megan Saunders, ‘Turnbull closer to win as King loses votes’, The Australian, 27 February 2004.
72 Hyde Page, pp. 269–70.
73 D.D. McNicoll and Emma-Kate Symons, ‘Strewth’, The Australian, 28 January 2004.
74 Tory Maguire, ‘Wealth and ambition not enough’, The Daily Telegraph, 26 February 2004.
75 Yabsley, interview with author.
76 Morgan Mellish, ‘Toffs doing it tough, down at the local’, AFR, 1 March 2004.
77 Ibid.
78 Megan Saunders, ‘Battle for Wentworth’, The Australian, 27 February 2004.
79 Michelle Grattan, ‘Now Turnbull can bank on Canberra’, Sunday Age, 29 February 2004.
80 Mellish, op. cit.
81 John Roskam, ‘Turnbull a force for change’, AFR, 1 March 2004.
82 Janet Albrechtsen, ‘What’s wrong with the political right’, The Australian, 3 March 2004.
83 ‘Liberals turn to go and get stacked’, The Australian, 17 October 2003.
84 Ted Mack, interview with author.
85 Kerry-Anne Walsh and Matthew Benns, ‘Antics of head office will cost us the seat’, The Sun-Herald, 30 May 2004.
86 Ibid.
87 Lisa Allen and Morgan Mellish, ‘How Malcolm’s grand plan fell apart’, AFR, 23 April 2004.
88 Malcolm Farr, ‘$600 000 to buy a seat—Turnbull’s huge election bill to win Wentworth’, The Daily Telegraph, 30 March 2005.
89 ‘Wealthy votes “bought”’, The Daily Telegraph, 3 December 2004.
90 Tony Vermeer, ‘Malcolm in the middle’, The Sunday Telegraph, 7 March 2004.
91 Kate McClymont, ‘King accused of involvement in blackmail’, SMH, 2 October 2004.
92 ‘Iraq: Malcolm Turnbull’s comments’, Questions Without Notice, Hansard, 10 August 2004.
93 Megan Saunders, ‘A kick in the Liberals seat’, The Australian, 6 September 2004.
94 ‘Panic dinner over threat to Wentworth’, Daily Telegraph, 2 October 2004.
95 Angus Grigg, ‘The member for net worth’, BRW, 27 May 2009.
1 Kate Askew, ‘Rattle your jewels, here’s a touch of glass’, SMH, 30 November 2004.
2 Ibid.
3 Jason Koutsoukis, ‘House on the hill’, The Age, 30 November 2004.
4 Ibid.
5 Matt Price, ‘A prince, a schemer and an apparatchik’, The Australian, 4 December 2004, p. 32.
6 ‘Fed: 10 politicians to watch in 2005’, AAP, 16 December 2004.
7 Alan Ramsey, ‘The ins and outs of office politics’, SMH, 11 December 2004.
8 Michael Gordon, ‘A new phase begins, effortlessly’, The Age, 11 December 2004.
9 Sharon Labi, ‘Turnbull assigns $100m to Lucy’, The Sunday Telegraph, 2 January 2005.
10 Andrew Hornery with Bonnie Malkin, Spike, SMH, 11 January 2005.
11 Lincoln Wright, ‘Turnbull claiming “rent” to his wife’, The Sunday Telegraph, 25 February 2007.
12 Neil Mitchell, ‘Politicians wallow as the needy get whacked’, Culture Club, Herald Sun, 1 March 2007.
13 Mark Davis, ‘Turnbull quick off the mark’, AFR, 3 December 2004.
14 House Hansard, 30 November 2004.
15 Nick Leys, Strewth, The Australian, 17 and 18 February 2005.
16 Adam Shand, Malcolm Turnbull profile, Sunday, Channel Nine, 2 November 2003.
17 Peter Costello with Peter Coleman, The Costello Memoirs: The Age of Prosperity, MUP, 2008, p. 268.
18 Ibid., p. 273.
19 George Megalogenis, ‘Tax-as-you-earn workers stung by $3.8bn bracket creep’, The Australian, 21 February 2004 and subsequent articles.
20 Budget Paper No. 1, statement 1: ‘Fiscal strategy and budget priorities, budget strategy and priorities’, http://budget.gov.au/2005-06/bp1/html/bst1-05.htm
21 Malcolm Turnbull, House Hansard, 25 May 2005, pp. 13–14.
22 Malcolm Turnbull, ‘The way ahead’, in Peter Dawkins and Michael Stutchbury (eds), Sustaining Prosperity, MUP, 2005, p. 195.
23 Kerry-Anne Walsh, ‘Turnbull fires surprise taxation shot across Costello’s bows’, The Sun-Herald, 28 August 2005.
24 Madonna King, Not Just Your Average Joe, UQP, 2014.
25 Malcolm Turnbull, House Hansard, 25 May 2005, pp. 120–2.
26 Tony Abbott, Battlelines, MUP, 2009, p. 87 and see Patricia Karvelas, ‘Tony Abbott signs contract on Work Choices but muddles message on workplace laws’, The Australian, 19 July 2010, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/tony-abbott-signs-contract-on-work-choices-but-muddles-message-on-workplace-laws/story-fn59niix-1225893906267
27 Paddy Manning, ‘25 years on, Hawke’s climate change crisis still ignored by Australian govt’, Crikey, 5 January 2015, http://www.crikey.com.au/2015/01/05/25-years-on-hawkes-climate-change-crisis-still-ignored-by-australian-govt/?wpmp_switcher=mobile
28 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Second Assessment Report 1995, https://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/climate-changes-1995/ipcc-2nd-assessment/2nd-assessment-en.pdf
29 Asa Wahlquist, Thirsty Country, Jacana Books, 2008, p. 41.
30 John Howard, Lazarus Rising, HarperCollins, 2010, p. 557.
31 Malcolm Turnbull, House Hansard, 14 June 2005, p. 98.
32 Alan Jones, 2GB Sydney, 22 March 2005.
33 Malcolm Turnbull, House Hansard, 10 October 2005, p. 84.
34 Barry Cassidy, ‘Malcolm Turnbull on the water summit’, Insiders, ABC TV, ABC transcripts, 25 February 2007.
35 Fiona Carruthers, ‘Turnbull looks for his high-water’, AFR, 28 January 2006, p. 24.
36 Kerry O’Brien speaks to Malcolm Turnbull, ‘Governments bicker over water reforms’, 7.30 Report, ABC TV, ABC transcripts, 16 October 2006.
37 Ibid.
38 Paul Kelly, ‘A watershed moment’, The Australian, 11 November 2006.
39 http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2006/s1566257.htm and see the subsequent book by Guy Pearse, High & Dry: John Howard, Climate Change and the Selling of Australia, Penguin, 2007.
40 Howard, Lazarus Rising, p. 552.
41 ‘Fed: Not original, but light bulb plans gets green light’, AAP, 20 February 2007.
42 John Breusch and Steven Scott, ‘Turnbull poised to make a splash’, AFR, 24 January 2007.
43 Donna Green and Liz Minchin, Screw Light Bulbs, UWA Publishing, 2010, pp. 177–9.
44 John Howard, ‘Address to the National Press Club’, 25 January 2007, http://pmtranscripts.dpmc.gov.au/release/transcript-15329 and is reproduced in full at http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/howards-full-speech-to-the-national-press-club/story-e6frg6n6-1111112888088
45 Brian Toohey, ‘Why the government went to water’, AFR, 9 June 2007.
46 http://australianpolitics.com/2007/03/14/ken-henry-speech-to-treasury-staff.html
47 Howard, Lazarus Rising, p. 558.
48 Media Monitors transcript, ‘Questions regarding the Murray–Darling Basin Plan’, http://thebasinplan.mdba.gov.au/, under media resources, Press Conference: Launch of the guide, 10/10/2010, cited in Asa Wahlquist’s paper on ‘Media Coverage’ for the ANU’s ‘Crawford School Dialogue: The Murray–Darling Basin Plan: What will it mean for the future of the Murray–Darling Basin?’ Friday, 15 October 2010.
49 Asa Wahlquist, interview with author.
50 Daniel Connell, ‘Response to Horne and Guest’, in James Horne and Chris Guest, ‘The Australian water policy framework: A rejoinder to Daniel Connell, “A time to regroup and reassess in the Murray Darling Basin”’, Reflections on water reform in the Colorado and Murray-Darling Basins, Global Water Forum, Canberra, 2014; see also Paddy Manning, ‘Hard to swallow but food security threat is very real’, SMH, 3 December 2011, http://www.smh.com.au/business/hard-to-swallow-but-food-security-threat-is-very-real-20111202-1oba8.html
51 Bob Brown, interview with author.
52 Malcolm Turnbull, Laurie Oakes interview, Sunday, Channel Nine, 29 July 2007.
53 Pearse, pp. 79–80.
54 Malcolm Turnbull, ‘Matters of public importance: Climate change’, House Hansard, 11 September 2007.
55 Ibid.
56 Costello and Coleman, p. 302.
57 Howard, Lazarus Rising, p. 622.
58 Marian Wilkinson, ‘Turnbull’s $10m for “rainmakers” with no proof’, SMH, 24 October 2007.
59 Laurie Oakes, ‘Turnbull’s $10m dance to rain gods’, Daily Telegraph, 1 March 2008.
60 Greg Hoy, ‘Turnbull under fire for $10m water deal’, 7.30 Report, ABC TV, 19 November 2007.
61 Speech by Tony Burke, House Hansard, 22 June 2009, pp. 6692–4.
62 Richard Flanagan, ‘Out of control: The tragedy of Tasmania’s forests’, The Monthly, May 2007.
63 Quentin Beresford, The Rise and Fall of Gunns Ltd, NewSouth, 2015, ch. 9, Kindle edition, loc. 4133.
64 Matthew Denholm, ‘October revolution: Workers join capitalists’, The Australian, 7 October 2004.
65 Janet Fife-Yeomans, ‘When two mates go to war: Watch and enjoy’, Daily Telegraph, 24 August 2007.
66 Matthew Denholm with Imre Salusinszky, ‘PM sidesteps trouble at the mill’, The Australian, 23 August 2007.
67 Jennifer Hewett, ‘Just because I like him won’t stop me burying him’, The Australian, 23 August 2007.
68 Fife-Yeomans, op. cit.
69 Beresford, loc. 4189.
70 Ibid., loc. 4184.
71 ‘Cousins attacks Garrett over pulp mill’, AAP, 27 August 2007.
72 Beresford, loc. 4227.
73 Andrew Clark, ‘Stop laughing, this is really serious’, AFR, 17 November 2007.
74 Ibid.
75 Howard, Lazarus Rising, p. 642.
76 Costello and Coleman, pp. 302–3.
77 Glenn Milne, ‘Turnbull on the edge—Minor parties to decide his fate—ELECTION ’07’, Sunday Telegraph, 11 November 2007.
78 ‘Fed: Turnbull says Wentworth will go to by-election if Labor wins’, AAP, 24 November 2007.
79 Tracy Ong, ‘Turnbull stirred, not shaken’, AFR, 26 November 2007.
80 Marian Wilkinson, ‘Turnbull first at the gate for the leadership’, SMH, 26 November 2007.
1 ‘Fed: Keating backs Bishop over fizzer Turnbull and fogey Abbott’, AAP, 26 November 2007.
2 Janet Albrechtsen, ‘Romanticising Australian conservatism’, in Peter van Onselen (ed.), Liberals and Power: The Road Ahead, MUP, 2008.
3 Tony Jones, ‘Tony Abbott talks frankly about leadership and loss’, Lateline, ABC TV, 28 November 2007, http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2007/s2104447.htm
4 Lenore Taylor, ‘Turnbull’s talk turned the tide’, AFR, 30 November 2007.
5 ‘Fed: Nelson plays down report of Turnbull spat’, AAP, 2 December 2007.
6 ‘NSW: Nelson laughs off poll results’, AAP, 4 December 2007.
7 Lenore Taylor and David Uren, Shitstorm: Inside Labor’s Darkest Days, MUP, 2010, pp. 156–7.
8 Glenn Milne, ‘Liberals squabble as Labor’s flaws appear’, The Australian, 9 May 2008.
9 David Marr, The Henson Case, Text Publishing, 2008, p. 26.
10 Ibid., pp. 85–6.
11 Annabel Crabb, ‘Stop at nothing: The life and adventures of Malcolm Turnbull’, Quarterly Essay, Issue 34, 2009, p. 63.
12 Marr, The Henson Case, p. 118.
13 Lenore Taylor, ‘Brendan Nelson shifts on emissions’, The Australian, 11 July 2008.
14 Leigh Sales, ‘SMH’s political editor joins Lateline’, Lateline, ABC TV, ABC transcripts, 10 September 2008.
15 Peter Hartcher, ‘Doctor out of the house: Nelson’s final diagnosis’, SMH, 29 August 2009.
16 Brendan Nelson, interview with author.
17 ‘Major banks may follow NAB rate rise’, AAP, 4 January 2008.
18 Anne Davies, ‘Turnbull accuses Swan of reckless talk abroad’, SMH, 21 April 2008.
19 Chris Bowen, House Hansard, Wednesday, 15 October 2008, p. 9193.
20 Kevin Rudd, ‘The Global Financial Crisis’, The Monthly, February 2009.
21 Trevor Sykes, Six Months of Panic: How the Global Financial Crisis Hit Australia, Allen & Unwin, 2010.
22 Paddy Manning, ‘In Australia in property we trusted: Making sense of Centro’, SMH, 22 October 2009, http://www.smh.com.au/business/in-property-we-trusted-making-sense-of-centro-20091021-h93n.html#ixzz3lGCmVYAD
23 ‘Swan denies stealing mortgage move from Turnbull’, News, ABC TV, 26 September 2008.
24 Wayne Swan, The Good Fight: Six Years, Two Prime Ministers and Staring Down the Great Recession, Allen & Unwin, 2014, Kindle edition, loc. 1090.
25 Chris Uhlmann, ‘Turnbull wants detail of surplus spend’, AM, ABC Radio, ABC transcripts, 14 October 2008.
26 Matthew Franklin and Scott Murdoch, ‘PM failed to see dangers: Turnbull—Road to recovery’, The Australian, 16 October 2008.
27 Taylor and Uren, pp. 165–6.
28 House Hansard, Tuesday, 3 February 2009, p. 17.
29 House Hansard, Wednesday, 4 February 2009, p. 181.
30 Sarah Ferguson, The Killing Season, ABC TV, 2015.
31 Swan, loc. 1762.
32 Department of the Treasury, Economics Legislation Committee, 4 June 2009.
33 Ibid.
34 Wayne Swan, ‘OzCar’, Questions Without Notice, Hansard, 4 June 2009, p. 5772.
35 House Hansard, Wednesday, 17 June 2009.
36 Steve Lewis, ‘Car deal: PM in a spin’, Daily Telegraph, 19 June 2009.
37 Godwin Grech testimony, Car Dealership Financing Guarantee Appropriation Bill 2009, Economics Legislation Committee, 19 June 2009.
38 Lyndal Curtis, ‘Prime Minister and Treasurer accused of misleading Parliament’, PM, ABC Radio, ABC transcripts, 19 June 2009.
39 Steve Lewis, ‘Come clean, tell truth Turnbull puts blowtorch on Rudd, Swan’, Daily Telegraph, 20 June 2009.
40 ‘Fed: Rudd gives Turnbull 24 hours to produce email evidence’, AAP, 21 June 2009.
41 ‘Paths of Glory’, Australian Story, ABC TV, 3 August 2009.
42 Kevin Rudd, House Hansard, Monday, 22 June 2009, p. 6665.
43 Craig Emerson, House Hansard, Tuesday, 23 June 2009, p. 6881.
44 Lindsay Tanner, ‘Matters of public importance: OzCar’, House Hansard, Wednesday, 24 June 2009, p. 7052.
45 Emma Griffiths, ‘Henry warns stimulus cuts could cost 100,000 jobs’, ABC transcripts, 9 October 2009.
46 Taylor and Uren, pp. 167–8.
47 Laurie Oakes, ‘His antenna needs tuning’, The Courier-Mail, 8 August 2009.
48 Peter Hartcher, ‘Brilliant and fearless but Paul Keating was right about Turnbull’, SMH, 27 June 2009.
49 Michelle Grattan and Misha Schubert, ‘With Ari Sharp I’m Grech’s victim, says Turnbull’, The Age, 5 August 2009.
50 Annabel Crabb, ‘A Turnbull in a china shop’, SMH, 27 June 2009.
51 Peter Hartcher, ‘Brilliant and fearless’, op. cit.
52 Arthur Sinodinos, interview with author.
53 Nick Greiner, interview with author.
54 Dennis Shanahan, ‘Failing the faith test’, The Australian, 7 August 2009.
55 Tony Abbott, ‘Turnbull is right, the Coalition can’t win this fight’, The Australian, 24 July 2009.
56 Philip Chubb, Power Failure, Black Inc., 2014, p. 127.
57 Taylor and Uren, p. 181.
58 Laurie Oakes, ‘Green Malcolm in the middle’, Herald Sun, 3 October 2009.
59 Peter van Onselen, ‘Majority of Libs oppose ETS plan’, The Australian, 29 September 2009.
60 Leader, ‘Turnbull and Joyce are making the same mistake’, The Australian, 11 November 2009.
61 Stuart Rintoul, ‘Town of Beaufort changed Tony Abbott’s view on climate change’, The Australian, 12 December 2009.
62 Tony Abbott, Battlelines, MUP, 2009, pp. 183–4.
63 Paul Kelly, Triumph and Demise: The Broken Promise of a Labor Generation, MUP, 2014, p. 256.
64 Ibid.
65 Ibid., p. 250.
66 Greg Combet, Fights of My Life, MUP, 2014, Kindle edition, loc. 3599–600.
67 Kelly, p. 249.
68 Chubb, pp. 70–1.
69 Kelly, p. 21.
70 Ibid., p.19.
71 Andrew Robb, Black Dog Daze, MUP, 2011, p. 165.
72 Ibid., p. 167.
73 Ibid.
74 Kelly, p. 258.
75 Michael Yabsley, interview with author.
76 Barrie Cassidy, The Party Thieves, MUP, 2010, p.30.
77 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-12-07/turnbull-savages-abbott-over-climate-bullshit/1171972
78 Phillip Coorey, ‘Turnbull to quit politics’, SMH, 6 April 2010, http://www.smh.com.au/national/turnbull-to-quit-politics-20100406-rnt5.html#ixzz3lbe1I0Hi
79 Imre Salusinszky, ‘I urged Malcolm Turnbull to stay: John Howard’, The Australian, 21 October 2010.
1 Sue Dunlevy, ‘DIET 101: Herbs that turned PM from flab to fab’, The Advertiser, 27 September 2015.
2 Lenore Taylor, ‘Malcolm in the middle’, SMH, 3 March 2012.
3 James Chessell, ‘Libs lost for words over broadband plans’, The Australian, 12 August 2010.
4 Kerry O’Brien, ‘Abbott quizzed on broadband and economy’, 7.30, ABC TV, 10 August 2010.
5 Simon Benson, ‘Abbott’s razor plan to pay off our debts’, Daily Telegraph, 28 April 2010.
6 Tony Windsor’s comments were widely quoted, see for example, ‘Abbott passes broadband burden to his rival’, The Age, 16 September 2010.
7 ‘Extract from the evaluation report for the request for proposals to roll-out and operate a National Broadband Network for Australia’, 20 January 2009, https://www.accc.gov.au/system/files/Summary%20observations%20for%20website.pdf
8 Senate Environment, Communications and the Arts Legislation Committee (Budget Estimates), Hansard, 26 May 2009, p. 83; ACCC chairman Graeme Samuel said: ‘Despite what some parties have said, FTTN is not an efficient stepping stone to a FTTP network. Around two thirds of that upgrade cost would ultimately never be incorporated into rolling out a FTTP network—it would be wasted obsolete expenditure.’
9 Peter Hartcher, ‘When the PM’s biggest decision was up in the air’, SMH, 11 April 2009.
10 James Massola, ‘Telstra crucial for broadband network’, Canberra Times, 9 April 2009.
11 James Massola, ‘Greens hail network as “visionary” project’, Canberra Times, 8 April 2009.
12 Malcolm Turnbull, ‘Don’t be fooled, Ruddnet is too good to be true’, The Australian, 14 April 2009.
13 Stephen Long, ‘The National Broadband Network’, Four Corners, ABC TV, 11 April 2011.
14 ‘Demolition man Turnbull goes after NBN’, News, ABC TV, 14 September 2010.
15 Tony Jones, ‘Conroy, Turnbull clash over NBN cost’, Lateline, ABC TV, ABC transcripts, 29 September 2010.
16 Malcolm Turnbull, ‘Conroy should lay broadband cost on line’, SMH, 16 September 2010.
17 ‘NBN broadband satellites please farmers’, AAP, 8 February 2012.
18 Hannah Francis, ‘The NBN satellite Malcolm Turnbull never wanted prepares for liftoff’, SMH, 28 August 2015.
19 Josh Taylor, ‘Any NBN is a threat to Foxtel’, ZDNet, 5 August 2013; Graeme Philipson, ‘Turnbull says Coalition NBN a bigger threat to Foxtel than Labor’s’, ITWire, 4 August 2013.
20 Emma Dawson, ‘News Corp Australia vs the NBN—Is it really all about Foxtel?’ The Conversation, 8 August 2013.
21 Kim Williams, interview with author.
22 @rupertmurdoch, 4 August 2013, https://twitter.com/rupertmurdoch/status/364248026044309504
23 Amanda Meade, ‘Rupert Murdoch: NBN a ridiculous idea and climate change overblown’, The Guardian, 13 July 2014, http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/jul/13/rupert-murdoch-labors-nbn-was-ridiculous
24 Paul Sheehan, ‘Murdoch sends trusted general “Col Pot” to bring down Rudd over NBN’, SMH, 4 August 2013.
25 ‘Key Labor seats given NBN first: Turnbull’, News, ABC, 5 April 2012.
26 Malcolm Maiden, ‘Politics, yes, but not contra the Coalition’, The Age, 31 March 2012.
27 Jones, ‘Conroy, Turnbull clash over NBN cost’, op. cit.
28 Anthony Klan, ‘NBN chiefs silent on scandal at former employer—and Conroy didn’t ask EXCLUSIVE’, The Australian, 29 April 2011.
29 Fed: ‘NBN boss explains blank on Alcatel bribery’, AAP, 16 May 2011.
30 Fed: ‘NBN Co boss apologises for error’, AAP, 16 May 2011.
31 David Crowe, ‘Quigley pays the price’, AFR, 21 May 2011.
32 Peter Martin and Lucy Battersby, ‘Turnbull indicates no faith in NBN boss’, SMH, 24 October 2011.
33 Phil Jacob, ‘An NBN broadside: Sparks fly as angry Turnbull confronts broadband chief—NBN: Rolling out the billions’, The Daily Telegraph, 25 October 2011.
34 John McDuling, ‘Quigley stuck in an NBN quagmire’, AFR, 2 March 2013.
35 Mark Gregory, ‘The army should rescue the NBN’, The Conversation, 25 February 2013.
36 ‘Quigley leaves NBN’, Transcript ABC 24, 12 July 2013.
37 The Coalition’s Plan for Fast Broadband and an Affordable NBN, Policy and Background Papers, April 2013.
38 NBN Co., Strategic Review Commercial in Confidence—Final Report, 12 December 2013, p. 12.
39 The Coalition’s Plan for fast Broadband and an Affordable NBN, p. 13.
40 Stephanie McDonald, ‘In his own words: Tony Abbott on the NBN’, Computerworld, 9 September 2013.
41 Emma Alberici, ‘NBN debate’, Lateline, ABC TV, 12 August 2013, http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2013/s3824057.htm
42 Author’s word count: of a 5200-word transcript, Turnbull spoke 2156 words versus Albanese’s 1700 words.
43 Anthony Albanese, interview with author.
44 Mitchell Bingemann, ‘Turnbull reneges on NBN promises’, The Australian, 12 December 2013.
45 Paddy Manning, ‘Telstra wins, we all lose in NBN deal’, Crikey, 15 December 2014, http://www.crikey.com.au/2014/12/15/telstra-wins-we-all-lose-in-nbn-deal/
46 Mike Quigley, ‘Exploding Malcolm Turnbull’s myths’, unpublished, 2015, pp. 7–8.
47 Jonathan Holmes, ‘The difference between advocacy and analysis’, Media Watch, ABC TV, 11 March 2013.
48 Jennifer Hewett, ‘Cable guy’, The Australian, 11 April 2009.
49 John McDuling, ‘Quigley stuck in an NBN quagmire’, AFR, 2 March 2013.
50 Adam Bender, ‘Vertigan broadband demand forecast leaves NBN Co CEO “curious”’, Computerworld, 28 August, 2014, http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/553475/vertigan_broadband_demand_forecast_leaves_nbn_co_ceo_curious_/
51 AT&T, submission to the US Federal Communications Commission, April 2015, cited in Quigley, p. 17.
52 David Ramli, ‘Netflix popularity requires NBN price rethink, says iiNet boss David Buckingham’, SMH, 6 July 2015.
53 Michael de Percy, ‘Turnbull’s plan to speed up the delivery of Australia’s broadband network’, The Conversation, 6 August 2015, https://theconversation.com/turnbulls-plan-to-speed-up-the-delivery-of-australias-broadband-network-45483
54 Paul Budde, ‘The NBN—More lies leading us from bad to worse’, 24 August 2015, http://www.buddeblog.com.au/frompaulsdesk/the-nbn-more-lies-leading-us-from-bad-to-worse/
55 Rod Tucker, ‘The NBN: Why it’s slow, expensive and obsolete’, The Conversation, 8 September 2015, https://theconversation.com/the-nbn-why-its-slow-expensive-and-obsolete-47191
56 Quigley, p. 17.
57 ‘No cuts to the ABC or SBS: Abbott’, SBS World News, SBS, 30 January 2014, http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2013/09/06/no-cuts-abc-or-sbsabbott; see also ABC Fact Check ‘Promise check: No cuts to SBS’, 13 August 2014, http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-27/no-cuts-to-the-sbs-promisecheck/5391126 which concluded the promise was ‘broken’.
58 Myriam Robin, ‘Manning to ABC: Harden up and defend free speech’, 24 June 2015, http://www.crikey.com.au/2015/06/24/manning-to-abc-harden-up-and-defend-free-speech/ (interview with Peter Manning, who is my father).
59 Mark Scott, ‘In defence of the ABC’, 26 Jun 2015, http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-06-26/scott-in-defence-of-the-abc/6575408
60 Bernard Keane, ‘Your guide to the data retention debate: What it is and why it’s bad’, 18 March 2015, http://www.crikey.com.au/2015/03/18/your-guide-to-the-data-retention-debate-what-it-is-and-why-it%E2%80%99s-bad/
61 Renai LeMay, ‘Malcolm Turnbull was Australia’s worst ever communications minister’, Delimiter, 14 September 2015, http://delimiter.com.au/2015/09/14/malcolm-turnbull-was-australias-worst-ever-communications-minister/
1 Shalailah Medhora, ‘Tony Abbott’s knighthood decision “verges on fatal”, says Andrew Bolt’, The Guardian, 29 January 2015, http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/jan/29/tony-abbotts-knighthood-decision-verges-on-fatal-says-andrew-bolt
2 Emma Griffiths, ‘Tony Abbott uses Press Club speech to warn against “infighting”; says he has “listened and learned” over unpopular “captain’s picks”’, ABC News, updated 3 Feb 2015, http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-02/tony-abbott-speaks-at-press-club/6061982
3 Annika Smethurst, ‘Hair Force One’, Herald Sun, 15 July 2015.
4 See Katharine Murphy, ‘Same-sex marriage: Coalition party room sticks with the status quo—politics live’, The Guardian, 11 August 2015—extraordinary, blow-by-blow, 16-hour coverage of the day’s events, http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2015/aug/11/coalition-set-to-unveil-a-modest-emissions-reduction-target-politics-live
5 Katharine Murphy, ‘Same-sex marriage and emissions target debates dominate parliament—politics live’, The Guardian, 12 August 2015, http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2015/aug/12/tony-abbott-says-same-sex-marriage-bill-may-not-come-to-a-vote-politics-live#block-55cab27ae4b0319c7e45728e
6 See Lenore Taylor, ‘Abbott’s small government: Cabinet meets without single formal submission to debate’, The Guardian, 17 August 2015, http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/aug/17/abbotts-small-government-cabinet-meets-without-single-formal-submission-to-debate; also https://twitter.com/Riley7News/status/633549492411695104
7 Mark Riley, ‘Abbott angry at Cabinet members’, 7News Sydney, 18 August 2015, https://au.news.yahoo.com/video/watch/29291444/abbott-angry-at-cabinet-members/#page1
8 ‘Paths of Glory’, Australian Story, ABC TV, 3 August 2009.
9 Arthur Sinodinos, interview with author.
10 James Massola, ‘PM poised to reshuffle frontbench’, SMH, 19 December 2014; James Massola and Michaela Whitbourn, ‘Reshuffle likely after Sinodinos resigns office’, SMH, 20 December 2014; James Massola, ‘PM’s office set for reshuffle amid criticism of strategy’, SMH, 23 December 2015.
11 http://www.totalpolitics.com/print/1683/life-after-boris-james-mcgrath.thtml
12 Phillip Coorey and Laura Tingle, ‘Liberal leadership: The faceless men who stalked Abbott and made Turnbull king’, AFR, 17 September 2015.
13 Peter Hartcher, ‘Inside the coup’, SMH, 19–20 September 2015.
14 Ibid.
15 Rosemary Neill, ‘Lucy: Labor was out to get me over Malcolm’ and ‘A formidable “sounding board”,’ The Weekend Australian, 26–27 September 2015.
16 Emma Alberici, ‘NBN debate’, Lateline, ABC TV, 12 August 2013, http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2013/s3824057.htm
17 Jessica Gardner, ‘Liberal leadership: Lucy Turnbull gives Prime BioMed and SeaLink a line to the Lodge’, SMH, 15 September 2015.
18 James Frost, ‘How Malcolm invests’, AFR, 18 August 2015.
19 Malcolm Turnbull, correspondence with author, 2 October 2015.
20 Peter Hartcher, ‘Office politics: Tony Abbott’s staff slow to leave their old digs,’ SMH, 17 September 2015 at: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/politicalnews/office-politics-tony-abbotts-staff-slow-to-leave-their-old-digs-20150917-gjpad.html#ixzz3nGUvPmnn
21 Phillip Hudson, ‘Newspoll: Malcolm Turnbull soars as better PM’, The Australian, 22 September 2015.
22 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-09-15/cassidy-a-united-coalition-under-turnbull-would-be-hard-to-beat/6777158
23 7.30 Report, ABC TV, 21 September 2015, http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2015/s4316958.htm
24 Phillip Coorey, ‘PM calls back reform summit’, AFR, 29 September 2015.
25 Lenore Taylor, ‘Malcolm Turnbull says he’ll end stupid, shouty politics—his critics should too’, The Guardian, 18 September 2015, http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/sep/18/malcolm-turnbull-says-hell-end-stupid-shouty-politics-his-critics-should-too
26 Robert Manne, ‘One morning with Malcolm Turnbull: On life and politics’, The Monthly Essays, April 2012, https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2012/april/1337744204/robert-manne/one-morning-malcolm
27 Malcolm Turnbull, ‘CHAFTA and rebalancing of Chinese & Australian economies—Speech to Australia–China Business Forum’, 6 August 2015.
28 Malcolm Turnbull, ‘Menzies Lecture’, reprinted in full in The Australian, 9 October 2009.
29 Doug Aiton, ‘On monarchists, mates and mum’, Sunday Age, 8 August 1993.
30 Malcolm Turnbull, ‘Magna Carta and the rule of law in the digital age,’ speech to the Sydney Institute, 7 July 2015, http://www.malcolmturnbull.com.au/media/speech-to-the-sydney-institute-magna-carta-and-the-rule-of-law-in-the-digit
31 See Laurie Oakes, ‘Address to the Melbourne Press Freedom Dinner’, 25 September 2015, http://alliance.org.au/documents/150925_Melbourne_Press_Freedom_Dinner_Oakes_speech.pdf
32 Ian Hancock, interview with author.
33 Peter van Onselen, ‘Five-point détente would win Malcolm Turnbull the right to rule’, The Australian, 28 February 2015.
34 Arthur Sinodinos, interview with author.
35 Lenore Taylor, ‘Abbott government’s 2030 emissions target dubbed ‘pathetically inadequate” The Guardian, 11 August 2015, http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/aug/11/abbott-governments-2030-emissions-target-dubbed-pathetically-inadequate
36 Nicole Hasham, ‘PM Malcolm Turnbull has lost his courage on climate change, says Bernie Fraser’, SMH, 23 September 2015.