Winners and losers of a year of uncertainty

December 29 2017 - 7:00am
ROLLERCOASTER: After an unstable 2017, Simon Cowan says Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten might believe that eternal vigilance is the price of leadership.
ROLLERCOASTER: After an unstable 2017, Simon Cowan says Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten might believe that eternal vigilance is the price of leadership.

As 2017 began with the resignation of a cabinet minister, you would have been forgiven for thinking that might have been a defining moment of the political year. Forgiven, but wrong all the same. For 2017 revealed more of how the titanic changes of 2016 continued to unfold — for example, Donald Trump's presidency really is proceeding much like his campaign. Yet while the importance of many events remains unknown, some clear winners and losers emerge.

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