Malcolm Turnbull
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659 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 28 Jun
Malcolm Turnbull’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Well, I'm sure that, look, we'll see.
I'd see.
I mean, it is, you know, I'm a free agent.
I'm still a member of the Liberal Party.
But, you know, we're all free.
I think politics would be healthier if there was more competition at the centre.
I really do.
I'm 71, not 51.
So it's really up to others to take the lead on this and the logical people to do that obviously are people that are already in parliament and have demonstrated that this type of centrist, small-L liberal approach is one that finds support with their electorates.
Yeah, thanks so much.
When you see Trump with Putin, as I have on a few occasions, he's like the 12-year-old boy that goes to high school and meets the captain of the football team. My hero. It is really creepy. It's really creepy. And that struck you at the time? Oh, absolutely. It struck everybody. It was like you could touch it. It was creepy. The creepiness was palpable.
No, I'm not saying. I'm just telling you what I saw. Regrettably, the Republican Party under Donald Trump and particularly the right wing of the Republican Party
are very sympathetic to vladimir putin i mean i've been with trump and putin uh trump is in aura putin tyrants are often popular you see the key to democracy liberal democracy is that it empowers the majority but it also through the rule of law constrains the majority
And if you get to the point where anybody who can muster a majority, and I don't think Trump can do that, by the way, but anyone who can muster a majority is given absolute power and then can do whatever they like to the minority, That's not a democracy. That is a tyranny. That is an autocracy. Even if it's got the support of 50, 51% of the population, that is not what makes a democracy.
A democracy as we understand it is one where the rule of law protects all citizens and the rule of law applies to all citizens, whether they're the president or the prime minister or an ordinary, you know, elector.
The MeidasTouch Podcast · Trump Panics on Monday AM as He Can't Stop His Crash · 10 Mar 2025
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When you see Trump with Putin, as I have on a few occasions, he's like the 12-year-old boy that goes to high school and meets the captain of the football team. My hero. It is really creepy. It's really creepy. And that struck you at the time? Oh, absolutely. It struck everybody. It was like you could touch it. It was creepy. The creepiness was palpable.
No, I'm not saying. I'm just telling you what I saw. Regrettably, the Republican Party under Donald Trump and particularly the right wing of the Republican Party are very sympathetic to Vladimir Putin. I mean, I've been with Trump and Putin. Trump is in awe of Putin. Tyrants are often popular.
You see, the key to democracy, liberal democracy, is that it empowers the majority but it also, through the rule of law, constrains the majority. And if you get to the point where anybody who can muster a majority, and I don't think Trump can do that, by the way, but anyone who can muster a majority is given absolute power and then can do whatever they like to the minority, that's not a democracy.
That is a tyranny. That is an autocracy. Even if it's got the support of 50, 51% of the population, that is not what makes a democracy. A democracy, as we understand it, is one where the rule of law protects all citizens and the rule of law applies to all citizens, whether they're the president or the prime minister or an ordinary, you know, elector.
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