MALCOLM Turnbull says he leads a team of “talented individuals” who are entitled to speak their minds on issues from Syria to student fees.
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“You will have to ask Mr Turnbull when he will reveal his policies”, he said.
The prime minister said he’d had a “good chat” with Mr Abbott since taking his job in September.
In February this year, John Lyons, a senior writer at The Australian, revealed Mr Abbott had suggested a unilateral invasion of Iraq, with 3500 Australian ground troops that could halt the advance of IS.
‘This is the thing.
‘The Iraqi Government does not want to have western soldiers being out in the field.
“We need to finally take a stand on climate change and say enough is enough If the 10,000 people alive in 2050 whose survival is dependent on scavenging highly radioactive food and murdering their fellows for scraps of metal can’t minimize their carbon footprint then I fear we are truly doomed”.
Mr Abbott, along with fellow Coalition backbenchers Andrew Nikolic and Michael Sukkar and Liberal senator Zed Seselja, recently suggested Australia needs to do more in Syria, which would potentially include putting “boots on the ground” in collaboration with other countries.
On Tuesday, Mr Turnbull used his first national security statement to Parliament to advocate a “calm, clinical, professional, effective” response to the terror threat post-Paris massacre. Calm, clinical, professional, effective: “That’s how we defeat this menace”. “We are a party of freedom”, he said.
‘So the challenge for the security agencies is to be able to thwart, interrupt, prevent terrorist incidents, to maintain highly effective intelligence operations’.
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Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said Tuesday there was no global support for a US-led ground force to destroy the Islamic State group, which he called fundamentally weak with “more Twitter accounts than fighters”.
