After 75 weeks of indolence and drift Paul Kelly did his level best in The Weekend Australian to pick the eyes out of the Turnbull Government’s dire performance, writing that the Prime Minister “has had three strong weeks and injected new hope into the party”.

Of course Kelly’s claim is an admission that all has not been well after Malcolm Turnbull limped into his Point Piper compound at the end of last year – a year that was supposed to be about a ‘different style of leadership’ that ‘explains the challenges and opportunities’, ‘explains the challenges and how to seize the...