Just in case anyone missed it, Turnbull himself is about as elite as you can get in Australia.
A lawyer/merchant banker educated at Sydney Grammar School, University of Sydney, Brasenose College Oxford, net worth like $133M. Not your average person queueing at the Woolworths checkout. There's a bit of positioning going on, both with the public, and making the right noises for the right wing of the liberal party in the culture war. Jim On 4 December 2016 at 12:19, David Lochrin <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/12/2016 10:21, David Lochrin wrote: > > On 04/12/2016 08:29, Andy Farkas wrote: > >> As far as I can tell, Turnbull began using "elite" as a dog-whistle > only after Trump used it successfully. Yes, Turnbull is trying to emulate > Trump. Whether he's enough of a showman to pull it off remains to be seen. > > I apologise, it was David Boxall who wrote that... > > David L. > _______________________________________________ > Link mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link > _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
