If you want to know why the government is in deep trouble after Super Saturday, go no further than the Prime Minister’s response to a result about which his internal polling must have warned him days before.
Hoping for Aston in 2001, Malcolm Turnbull got Bass in 1975. It took him until Sunday afternoon to make an appearance, and it was spin, not substance.
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