The truth will out. It was announced last week that because the federal Cabinet was unable to agree on whether to support Kevin Rudd for the top job at the UN, Malcolm Turnbull would make a ‘captain’s call’.

After Turnbull decided against Rudd, Barnaby Joyce hastened to assure us that it was actually a majority Cabinet decision.

Now credible journalists report that the Cabinet had actually decided in favour of Rudd. It seems that Turnbull’s wafer-thin majority has left him skating on wafer-thin ice.

Frank Carroll