Ah, Malcolm, we hardly knew ye

“Egomaniac. Flawed. Fuck up. Icon.” Ah, Malcolm, we hardly knew ye.

Two-time winner of our coveted Male Sexiest Politician of the Year, the departing member for Wentworth first shared the honour in 2006:

Heady, optimistic times for these fallen, apparently sexy, heroes … Turnbull then went back-to-back, beating Garrett to take the title again in ’07. But Turnbull’s proudest Crikey moment has nothing to do with his baby blues.

In ’09, his stance on the ETS ensured that he beat an impressive line-up to garner Crikey‘s Person of the Year:

But we’ll give the last word to our Bernard, who wrote a letter to Turnbull on The Stump yesterday:

I disagreed with any number of your policies — indeed, probably most of them — but I reckon you would have made a great Prime Minister. That speech to the Forgotten Australians showed why — for all the brilliance, for all the ego and aggression and bull-at-a-gate recklessness, for all the lifelong, burning desire for the top prize — your humanity, and a splendid capacity to give voice to it, shone through. Like Paul Keating, your flaws are great, but so are your strengths. Sadly, they’re now lost from Australian public life.