Mr Stability: Turnbull's message rocked by real world ructions and party pressures | Lenore Taylor

The uneasy truce between the PM and his party’s right on climate change and marriage equality is under threat, while the Brexit vote challenges his stability v chaos message

It’s an ephemeral thing to build a campaign on – the assurance of stability and the accusation that your rival will cause inevitable chaos – hard to prove and easily rocked by unpredictable circumstance.

And Malcolm Turnbull’s central campaign pitch was buffeted in every direction on Friday.

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