I`m the man to lead Australia: Turnbull

Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has told the Liberal Party faithful he is the man
to lead Australia.
Flanked by his wife Lucy and daughter Daisy, Mr Turnbull received a standing ovation
as he made his way to the podium of the Liberal Party's 53rd Federal Council in
Sydney on Saturday.
"Australia deserves leaders that are confident and optimistic," Mr Turnbull told the
Council.
"Strength and resilience are part of my character and I know are part of your's.
They are part of the Liberal spirit.
"Picking yourself up, dusting yourself off and having another go - that's very
Australian. But (Prime Minister Kevin) Rudd Labor speaks of gloom and despair.
"If it's not an inflation monster, it's an economic cyclone.
"He is like a football coach at half-time in the grand final who tells his team
`we're doomed' when he should be telling them they're supermen, they can walk
through brick walls, nothing can stop them."
Mr Turnbull took every opportunity to dress down Mr Rudd and his government,
describing the Labor leader as a "quintessential bureaucrat" committed to putting
government at the centre of the economy.
The government's "cash splash" stimulus payouts again came under attack from Mr
Turnbull, who asked how long it would take Australia's future generations to pay
back the billions of dollars borrowed to pay for them.
"Mr Rudd has failed to learn one of the major lessons of this current financial
crisis: today's fiscal stimulus is tomorrow's fiscal drag," Mr Turnbull said.
"Every dollar the government borrows today means higher taxes ... in the future.
"He simply does not get it. What part of the word 'debt' doesn't he understand?
"From the moment he was elected, Mr Rudd started to make mistakes," Mr Turnbull said.
"He has never had an economic strategy - only a political one.
"The minimal boost his cash slashes deliver to today's economy will be dramatically
outweighed by the higher interest rates, higher taxes and lower levels of government
service our children will have to bear in order to pay off the debt Mr Rudd is
running up so he can be father Christmas every quarter."
Mr Turnbull also took the opportunity to again say is party will not support the
emissions trading scheme (ETS) in its current form or on its current timetable.
"A poorly designed ETS, like that currently proposed by Labor, which damages our
export industries so that they move offshore to developing countries does nothing
for the environment or the economy - we expect both the jobs and the emissions," he
said.
"And we will not support a poorly designed ETS."
The half-hour address also included his upbringing and business ventures, both
failed and successful, and ended on the importance of strength in leadership, the
closest Mr Turnbull came to addressing the much publicised debate about his position
as head of the parliamentary party.
"Strong leadership requires calling on those qualities of strength and resilience in
our Australian character to ensure we draw on every ounce of our talents for
enterprise, for innovation, for ingenuity, to push back against the adverse
international economic conditions," Mr Turnbull said.