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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, with Minister for Employment Michaelia Cash, and Attorney-General George Brandis, is rarely short of a word. It would be altogether too cynical, surely, to suggest he was running down the clock to avoid questions on his two fallen ministers: Mal Brough and Jamie Briggs. Fresh from take-out-the-trash-Tuesday, the PM was ready to get loquacious. The release of the final royal commission report into trade unions on Wednesday inspired Malsplaining at its finest. At times it's an over-correction, at others a welcome relief, to Tony Abbott's repetitive three-word slogans. The words cascade from his lips like waterfalls, segueing into new tributaries of thought until it's impossible to remember where he started. He's a man capable of a stream of consciousness even Virginia Woolf, that famed lover of the semi colon, would envy. When the PM gets going, it's a sight to behold. 2015 has been the year of Malsplaining, in which Malcolm Turnbull answers questions in as many words as possible. According to the Macquarie Dictionary, the word of 2014 was "mansplain" - whereby a man patronises a woman by explaining a concept to her as if she were an idiot.
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