And it's not even as though Turnbull is a racist/xenophobe. Unfortunately after Brexit and Trump, Australian politicians decided that - rather than become a bastion of tolerance and progressivism like other major powers such as New Zealand - it was necessary to make a huge jump to the right, because that's the "new reality". It's typical of the piss-weak, America's-bitch mentality that has pervaded Australian politics since... well probably forever, or at least since Keating left office.