Part of Malcolm Turnbull’s rationale for calling a double-dissolution election – the first in 29 years – was to clean out the cumbersome Senate of renegade and recalcitrant independents. Boy, am I redfaced .. or, is that, greenfaced? Hard to tell in shades of grey. Mr Turnbull, like Tony Abbott before him, was frustrated at having to negotiate with the disparate group of self-important independents who had found themselves able to wield enormous political power. Som…
