The key to Malcolm Turnbull's future success as PM will be to occupy the middle ground, which has traditionally won a lot of support from ordinary voters.
He has to firmly reject the far right religious conservative cabal in the so-called Liberal Party comprising people like Tony Abbott, Erica Betz, Kevin Andrews and their ilk, principally people who can't think for themselves but cling to their religious-based ideology.
If he can tread this middle way the Senate, while never a pushover, should be relatively easy to control because what will the independents have to complain about? Not much, i suggest.
That said, ditching the religious right wingnuts in his own party might be the easy part of the job for PM Turnbull.
Insofaras the Liberal Party election campaign was largely a policy-free zone, his major challenge may well be to construct a coherent policy framework.
Nowhere in my recent travels have i crossed paths (or swords) with ordinary taxpayers desperate to fund the tax avoidance, transfer pricing and other rorts deployed by big multinationals to bludge on their civic and other responsibilities here.
Nowhere.
One would hope that as one of the richest men in Australia, PM Turnbull can set aside his own greed and make decisions that genuinely help the majority.
If he had to fund the Liberal Party campaign to the tune of a reported A$1 million he doesn't have to kowtow to the private health insurance industry, property developers and other leechs usually associated with the conservatives.
