So Malcolm Turnbull has survived a long awaited leadership spill- claiming a staggering 60% of his caucus as supporters. 

But it hardly seems a day to celebrate.

40% of the Coalition were willing to vote for the only other candidate; former Work-Place Relations Minister Kevin Andrews, the man who tried to bring in Work Choices. Thus, the man who could possibly be the most unelectable Liberal party member after Wilson Tuckey. 

Today was also marked by the close-to-being-passed CPRS cementing itself as the Malcolm Turnbull of the legislation world- a toothless tiger. 

So as you keep your job for another few days you really deserve to stand up and smirk Malcolm. 

Can anyone think of a story that the Bard would have wanted to write more, than that of Malcolm Turnbull's life?

It has everything: Here is man who came from nothing but wanted everything. A man who got so close, and now, minutes before his tossing to the garbage heap of fallen politicians is wallowing in his chronic impotence.

'What is power?' he thinks. 'Not this'. 

The crown he built from unquenchable ambition, dodgy deals and mispointed fingers lies heavy on his head

He can't do anything, 'back me or sack me' he says, mustering up his courage, but the party does neither. He cares he really does, he tells himself, but the world doesn't seem him that way. 

And so it goes that a man that was basically good, but too great for one life will be remembered as a boy too big for his boots.

Malcolm Turnbull, the federal Opposition Leader of Australia, was summing up 2008 on ABC TV with Kerry O'Brien and the only ‘solution' to better economic management in the GFC (Global Financial Crisis) that Malcolm kept mentioning was ‘tax cuts' like the ghost of George W - ‘tax cuts'.

It's hard to believe that Mr Turnbull has not heard of John Maynard Keynes, hard to believe that he hasn't studied Keynes economic theory intensely. I'm sure he has and that his ‘tax cut solution' is just sucking up to people who don't understand economic reality or sucking up to people who want to make more money out of the crisis (at other people's expense).

Tax cuts are more likely to be saved than one off giveaways (like Rudd's thousand dollar cheques) but, while saving is very logical for the individual, family or company, saving is not what the country needs right now. Turnbull during the week compared correct Government policy to what a CEO might do with a company. Wrong. When the economy shrinks dramatically most smart CEOs should reduce expenditure but that's exactly why the Government should increase expenditure because, if the Government also shrinks, the economy will go into a downward spiral faster. That's what John Maynard Keynes explained in great detail.

Many people, that Turnbull is playing to, want to imagine that everyone, including the Government, should just tighten their budgets until things hit a natural bottom and bounce up - but there is no bottom - there is no natural reason, if everyone saves instead of spends,  why my house price won't fall by half or by 90%. Many rich friends of Turnbull, with a few ‘lazy' million, would then by up cheap properties and the longer they wait the cheaper they'd get them. The big banks in the USA that Bush/Paulsen gave $300 billion to have been sitting on most of the money waiting for bargains, like good capitalists, and that's exactly where most of ‘tax cut' money would also logically go.

Keynes says the Government is not just another family or company - it is a fundamentally different type of entity that has to act differently to counterbalance the natural actions, weaknesses and failures of other parts of society. Turnbull knows all this - maybe he disagrees. Kerry O'Brien should have not allowed him to get away with a simplistic, false ‘tax cut' solution without finding out his attitude to the dire consequences. Where was Kerry's quip "You sound just like George W".

There are ways to criticize Rudd - his economic stimulus could be greener (building traintracks to carry more coal!?) - he could start using the name Keynes (force Malcolm to say Keynes) in order to tell people economics has solutions - it's  Climate Change that is the crisis that we've barely faced before. GFC nothing new - Climate Change serious.  

The Greens Party have just won the balance of power in Canberra, not in the national government but in the national territory of the capital. The Labor Party and the Liberal Party have won an equal number of representatives in the capital territory parliament and the Greens will have three representatives who will hold the balance. How will they play it? Can they engage the Liberal Party in serious negotiations to get the Liberals competing to be much more ecologically aware and active than the Labor Party....I mean that wouldn't be really hard. Malcolm rush down to Canberra and get negotiating.

An ideal world might give us a Green Party government but in between time we need Australia, and the world to change direction now and what these Green reps in Canberra can do straightaway is force both of the two main parties to start competing for their support. I mean intensely. We need both Labor and Liberal to focus on the environment as the key issue governing our future direction. Macro issues, micro issues.

The Greens should negotiate hard, force the best offer off Labor and Liberal and, when they choose to support one party, immediately tell the losing party to go back, redesign their policies, make them more ecologically intelligent, faster acting, more transparent and come back for a second chance. The Greens should be ready to change the government in Canberra two, three, four, five times - the number of times it takes to get the other parties to change their direction. It's amazing how much politicians can change when ‘the government' is being offered to them. And it needs to be explained to the public that this is necessary. The Green Party voters and would be voters need to be kept engaged in this process because change involves uncertainty - democracy is a messy process. But as long as the voters keep supporting the Green reps the other politicians will be willing to negotiate.