Breaking news: PM survives leadership challenge

Malcolm Turnbull is still Australia's Prime Minister after surviving an attempted 'coup' this morning.

Earlier this morning, Mr Turnbull put the top spot up for grabs, so Peter Dutton put his hand up to challenge the PM. But Mr Turnbull won the leadership vote 48-35, and Mr Dutton promptly resigned himself to the backbench.

The PM may have won the battle, the party leadership war is not over.

The deputy leadership was also declared vacant, but Julie Bishop has hung on to her role as she was the only person nominated.

Mr Dutton will move to the backbench where he'll likely keep pushing for the leadership.

With much speculation that the PM's front bench does not support him, he lives to fight another day and thanked his colleagues for their support.

The energy policy may have been the reason for the spill, but tensions go much deeper. Mr Dutton is seen as a 'leader' who could unite the conservative faction of the Liberal Party. Expect much sniping and backbiting from the backbench in the coming months.

Who would you rather have the top job? Or are you happy with Malcolm as PM?

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Canberra's deranged circus of wreckers are now writing our future

 

 yes, Katherine Murphy got that right

You have to be deranged to be in politics nowadays Reagan. more's the pity. Thank our lucky stars we haven't got Trump!

Malcolm Turnbull cannot survive as leader while the Liberal Party is in such turmoil, ripping itself asunder as to whether it represents moderate or conservative ideology. The party is destroying itself and does not deserve the trust of the Australian people. One has to wonder right now if we are heading for an early election?

Regarding my preference for PM: I think Malcolm Turnbull is a piss weak PM but still prefer him to the dark, devious, deeply conservative Dutton. It is beside the point, I know, but I have always hated Dutton’s looks which would serve well in any horror movie. Ugly on the outside and I suspect equally ugly on the inside. The same could be said for his rat-faced puppeteer, Abbott. 

I think Malcolm Turnbull would have been better off to have waited for Abbott to be soundly defeated at the 2016 election before making his move as leader of the Opposition. The electorate would have shown clearly at that election that Abbott style conservative leadership was not popular with the people at large and he would have been so absolutely wiped that future direction for the Liberal Party would have been clear and clean. On the other hand, at least Turnbull saved us early from having to put up with such a dangerous PM - god knows what he would have inflicted on us all by now. Instead of Abbott ‘the wrecker’ destroying our nation he has only managed to destroy the Liberal Party, at least for the time being. They will be soundly defeated at the next election and I for one am happy about that.

 

 

 

 

 

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Topic question: Who would you rather have the top job? Or are you happy with Malcolm as PM?

Yes, he's the best we've got.

 

 

 

 

 

For a few days more Ray. Hope I'm wrong!

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