After a bad start, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull appears determined to keep on the same way, and to further alienate both conservatives and libertarians in the Liberal Party.

Tony Abbott lost a lot of that support, such as the influential Quadrant, when he refused to change or repeal Labor’s notorious Racial Discrimination Act, originally a legacy of Whitlam’s social engineering, and as it now stands one of the biggest threats to free speech in this country – as Turnbull, a former journalist and lawyer, should be well aware.