Malcolm Turnbull’s real baggage is the policy burden inherited from Abbott | Lenore Taylor

The new prime minister's only encumbrances are those he was lumped with, like Abbott's 'make the poorest worse-off' mindset and a dud climate policy

Baggage. Tony Abbott remarked this week - somewhat pointedly - that Malcolm Turnbull wasn't weighed down by much of his own.

"As a potential reformer, Malcolm Turnbull has the advantage of being relatively unbound by previous commitments," he wrote in his Spectator Diary. Silent subtext (by my reading): "Like the promises I had to make to get this government elected in the first place ... and then break in office."