The University of Canberra’s deputy vice-chancellor and vice-president (academic), Nicholas Klomp, and Michelle Grattan discuss the week in politics – including how Malcolm Turnbull went on his overseas trips and his London speech about Liberal Party founder Robert Menzies being in the sensible centre, Newspoll showing a rise in the One Nation vote to 11%, the government being stuck on the Finkel report’s proposed clean energy target, and Craig Kelly’s comments.

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