Thread: Tony Abbott ousted as Australia's prime minister

Tony Abbott ousted as Australia's prime minister by Malcolm Turnbull – politics live
Liberal party votes 54-44 in favour of Malcolm Turnbull taking over from prime minister Tony Abbott.

Tony Abbott ousted as Australia's prime minister by Malcolm Turnbull ? politics live | Australia news | The Guardian

"Last time an Australian PM served a full term the iPhone didn't exist"

Why are you blaming the iPhone, Norts???

Pardon my ignorance of Aussie politics, but why was he outed?

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

Pardon my ignorance of Aussie politics, but why was he outed?

No clue myself. Just popped up on the news. Sure our down under mates will fill you in.

Originally Posted by Norton

Sure our down under mates will fill you in.

Do you mean 'smash my face in' or 'bugger me'?

An embarrassment mainly. He did a great job of being an opposition leader, but not so good as leader of the country.

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

but why was he outed?

the budgie smugglers - g0ds will

Too many broken election promises apparently. He was never a popular leader.

The recent Prime Ministers of Australia have been diabolical .

First we had Rudd then we had Gillard then we had Rudd then we had that pin head Abbott. ????????

I don't mind Cambell.

At least he looks the part, carries himself like a Leader, is a very intelligent fuker and will surely hold his own on the world circuit.

A top rate Business man and a self made millionaire.

Thank Fuk he got up.

The rest of the worlds leaders may stop laughing at us now.

Cambell, Turnbull, too many bumps on the head.

Is malcom still a Republican.?

If so Bye bye Lizzie

Originally Posted by kingwilly

An embarrassment mainly. He did a great job of being an opposition leader, but not so good as leader of the country.

Sounds like you have just read Jeremy Corbyn's tea leaves.

Why would anyone want to be a politician these days, much less a leader. You can be as smart as the next bloke, run a tight ship and then bingo. Boat loads of refugees arrive, ragheads start bombing cafes and the Chinese don't want all that rare earth you just dug up. You are at the mercy of global indifference as any 1st world leader will tell you.

Now Malcolm is in office Real estate is going to go into boom status.

Abbott must be intelligent, he was a Rhode scholar, but he had a great knack of hiding it from everybody.

The whole thing about Australian politics that amuses Me is that the every day Brits say is that they admire Abbot, Australians have it right on immigration, they send back the boat invaders. Or Australia has it right on immigration.

Originally Posted by Horatio Hornblower

Is malcom still a Republican.?

Yes he is Republic time.

Revolving door politics,ground hog day it's all about power.
We had three great Prime Ministers Gough Whitlam,Bob Hawke,Paul Keating and dropkicks ever since.

We'll only get another dickhead.
No shortage over here.

Why? He was a suppository of wisdom.

No wonder the place is going to shit,no body is doing anything except stabbing the next bloke in the back.

Australia has a new prime minister. Again. The turbulent tenure of now former conservative PM Tony Abbott—infamous around the world for repealing Australia's groundbreaking carbon pricing system and extending the country's draconian immigration policies, which include locking up refugees in offshore detention centers—has come to an end after a dramatic day in Canberra, the nation's capital.
Australia's 29th prime minister is Malcolm Turnbull, who ousted Abbott with the help of Abbott's deputy, Julie Bishop, in a 54-44 vote of parliamentary members of the governing Liberal Party, Monday night Australian time. In a late-night press conference, Turnbull, also a member of Australia's conservative party, said he came to power "seeking to persuade, rather than to lecture"—highlighting one of the chief criticisms of Abbott as an inflexible scold who failed to explain complicated policies to the Australian people.
For those even remotely familiar with Australian politics, you'll know the last few years have been a bloodbath in the corridors of power, with fierce factional divides in both parties, Labor and Liberal, making the prime ministerial office the most treacherous room to occupy in the country. Three sitting prime ministers have now been toppled and replaced by their own parties, partly due to disagreements over climate change, terrible polling, and the management of Australia's resource-dependent economy. But Abbott's fall—after less than two years in power—is extraordinary: For a man who said he would bring stability back to the top job, he served in the position for a shorter time than the two previous prime ministers that he helped topple, Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd (both members of the opposition Labor party). Pressure on Abbott had been building for months.
Turnbull used to be a proponent of a cap-and-trade program, and he once called Abbott's position on climate change "bullshit" because Abbott was vehemently opposed a market-based solution. Abbott himself has previously doubted the science behind climate change, and he ran a brutal scare campaign against a carbon tax, arguing it would trash the economy. But it's unlikely, at least in the short term before another election, that climate will be back on the agenda anytime soon: Carbon pricing has cut to the quick of Aussie politics and has become a symbol for deep ideological divides, something Turnbull is likely loath to stir up, early in a new prime ministership. Commentators in Australia say Turnbull made private undertakings not to rock the boat too much, as he locked up the votes to contest the leadership.
Sure enough, Turnbull said at his first press conference that the government's position on climate change will stay the same for the moment. The current package of government investments in carbon abatement (called "Direct Action"), rather than a market-based system, "is one that I supported as a minister in the Abbott government, and it's one I support today," he said, describing it as "very well designed," and a "very, very good piece of work." Still, he did leave the door open to tweak the policy as he begins discussions with his new ministers.
For a quick look at how climate change has killed off past Aussie PMs, watch this Climate Desk video, from September 2013:




http://www.motherjones.com/politics/...nister-climate

Rhodes Scholar,millionaire business man come in you galah have a cigar the job is yours.

Keating - fcukin champion

The sharp-tongued former Prime Minister is as famous for his linguistic flair as he is for his love of Italian suits. Read some of his most memorable quotes.

On the Senate: "I would forbid him going to the Senate, to account to this unrepresentative swill over there…"

On the economy: "The accounts do show that Australia is in a recession. The most important thing about that is, is that this is the recession that Australia had to have."

To Malaysian PM: "APEC is bigger than all of us - Australia, the U.S. and Malaysia and Dr. Mahathir and any other recalcitrants."

On John Howard "The little desiccated coconut is under pressure and he is attacking anything he can get his hands on"

On John Howard "What we have got is a dead carcass, swinging in the breeze, but nobody will cut it down to replace him."

On Howard's 1996 election campaign: "Soon we will be at the stage where he will be offering us a free set of steak knives."

On Peter Costello: "The thing about poor old Costello is he is all tip and no iceberg."

On Peter Costello: "He's the greatest L plater of all time."

On Wilson Tuckey: "You boxhead you wouldn't know. You are flat out counting past ten."

On John Hewson: "(His performance) is like being flogged with a warm lettuce."

On Andrew Peacock: "I suppose that the Honourable Gentleman's hair, like his intellect, will recede into the darkness."

On Andrew Peacock: "We're not interested in the views of painted, perfumed gigolos."

On Andrew Peacock: "Can a soufflé rise twice?"

To Richard Carleton: "You had an important place in Australian society on the ABC and you gave it up to be a pop star…with a big cheque…and now you're on to this sort of stuff. That shows what a 24 carat pissant you are, Richard, that's for sure."

On Jim Carlton: "I was nearly chloroformed by the performance of the Honorable Member for Mackellar. It nearly put me right out for the afternoon."

On the Libs: "Mr Speaker can I have some protection from the clowns on the front bench?"

On the Libs: "Those opposite could not operate a tart shop"

On Steele Hall: "The Honorable Member has been in so many parties he is a complete political harlot."

To former ALP MP Jim McClelland: "That you Jim? Paul Keating here. Just because you swallowed a fucking dictionary when you were about 15 doesn't give you the right to pour a bucket of shit over the rest of us."