Strong leaders shouldn't need to tell you. It tends to be obvious through purpose and results, rendering any such boast unnecessary.
Which is why Malcolm Turnbull's early declaration regarding the same, stood out at a press conference he'd called to announce the conservative right's latest negation tactic - a voluntary postal poll - on marriage equality. And why it wound up conveying the opposite message.
"Strong leaders carry out their promises. Weak leaders break them. I'm a strong leader," Q.E.D.
This helpful clarification came as the Prime Minister unveiled what appears to be his new leadership doctrine to be known henceforth as PIS - party-insisted-surrender. The process by which any policy question that could widen the left-right fault lines running through the governing parties is assuaged, elevating internal views, and therefore leadership stability, above other considerations.
