A prime minister intent on leaving a legacy behind him has become converted to the belief that markets are the answer to public service improvement.
This is how Richards put it: "Though more conceptual work is needed, given the importance of the region and clear prime ministerial intent, I envisage two or more adaptable brigades forming close tactical level relationships with particular countries in the Gulf and Jordan, for example, allowing for better cooperation with their forces".
Turnbull has ended the campaign trying to "flick the switch" back to the consensus-driven centrist prime minister intent upon "bringing the country together" and "ending ideological divisions", but Abbott couldn't even wait until the votes were counted to implicitly berate his successor for not beating the drum on national security like he would have.
Yet the song told a different story, primed with intent and a glistening, insistently repeated guitar riff over which Murphy and Whang positively yelped their glee at being American, warts and all.
"The prime minister is intent on continuing the same course he has pursued the last two years".
Yesterday in Brussels, a room full of 27 EU presidents, chancellors and prime ministers was intent on a single task, trying to do what financial power demands.
If the prime minister is intent on reviving his career by reviving the mortgage market, however, the hint may fall on deaf ears.
Parliament can influence events as it proved two years ago when the same Prime Minister was intent on bombing Assad – which, as it turns out, would have been to the benefit of the forces that soon became known as Islamic State.
Downing Street today signalled that the prime minister remained intent on toughening the law on cannabis despite reports that the government's official drugs advisory body opposes its reclassification.
Until recent days, the prime minister seemed intent on shielding members of his cabinet who have been touched by the expenses scandal from losing their jobs, while effectively forcing several backbench Labor M.P.'s into retirement.
