A political schism once begun cannot be stopped. It develops a force of its own and moves in ways that cannot be controlled. The consequences can only be appreciated after the fires have been extinguished.
Scott Morrison will be sworn in as the 30th Prime Minister of Australia. The fight is not over. In many ways, it has only just begun. He won the spill 45 votes to Dutton’s 40. Julie Bishop was knocked out in the first round of voting. Morrison’s deputy is Josh Frydenberg.
Malcolm Turnbull’s delaying tactics allowed Morrison to assemble the numbers. He almost certainly did not have them yesterday.
n the comings days, expect the words “healing”, “repair”, “revival” and “restoration” to be vomited out of a thesaurus by senior Liberal figures. These words will be a nonsense, yet another damning exercise in the party’s obsession with introspection.
Full column here.
Jesus – just watching Abbott’s sister expressing some interest in standing for the seat of Wentworth.
I’m sure she’s a very nice person but I don’t think we need Abbott’s sister in parliament
Good to see Dutton get shafted.
He can start looking for another job thanks to his mate, Abbott.
Morrison must sort this rat out once and for all. It will be interesting to see how he behaves now.
Why?
they will both be on the front bench. morrison is a con and the worst treasurer this nation has ever seen. Frydenberg was deputy treasurer to hockey for goodness sakes. this coalition have been the not only the worst government of all time but on every single economic measure the worst in the nations history. That is fact.
Dutton will be back at Home Affairs on Monday. Expect Abbott in Cabinet as well. Energy and/or Aboriginal Affairs. Turnbull’s pettiness has to end for Morrison to bring the party room together.
I bet there is an ultimatum floating around along the grounds “Put Abbot in the cabinet and there will be an immediate by-election – leave him out and I will hang around”
uhuh at 40-45 Dutton is very much viable
I agree with all your sentiments, Boa.
It would be galling to see Abbott rewarded with a Cabinet spot – I see that Dutts has already been offered a deckchair on HMAS Coalition MK III. Watch for the waves, fellas!
I agree Boa, no doubt Christine is a nice person, but the last thing this country needs is another member of the Abbott family in Parliament, even one is too many. Whilst this stupid exercuse has created a host of jokes, memes and very funny tweets, I find it incredibly sad that the Australian people have had to endure this ego fest between some of the, shall we say, less impressive people in the LNP.
And to think I used to feel a bit smug about the politics in Malaysia compared to Australia, although I’m pretty sure none of our PMs have robbed the country blind of all it’s assets. I also fail to see how Julie Bishop fared so badly in the leadership tussle, her personal popularity far outranked that of Morrison and Dutton.
Rat? I think you have got him wrong Boa.
I hope some one asks Turnbull what he thought Abbott would do after he knifed him. Or didn’t he give that a thought? He’s obviously not the only one who thinks it fine to keep an undead corpse around the house.
Still, never any doubt that Turnbull would give it away.
Wonderful stuff. Tony Abbott should be awarded a knighthood for services to entertainment.
May the feud grow ever stronger and passionate and may bloody minded revenge drive and inspire them all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HStrLiUKn6s
Hoping the Labor contender in Warringah has the goods, nobody went up against Abbott in pre-selection as he’s poison in his own electorate.
-9% swing against him at the last election, 20,000 votes in it if I remember correctly.
A big ask but Greens/Labor preferences it may be doable who knows, he still has time to take down another PM.
Lady on Twitter published a question she asked Abbott at a branch meeting in Queenscliff basically along the lines of how he no longer represented the wishes of his electorate on SSM etc, his answer was “you don’t have to vote for me”
sums it up really
Labor won’t ever win Warringah. It would need a high profile indy.
Maybe not but chipping away at that majority would be no mean thing
Think Abbott will have trouble raising money whereas Labors pockets are deep, our illustrious senator Feveranti is a bit of a slacker on the fund raising and has thus been named and shamed.
absolutely
Dutts was totally outsmarted by Malcolm. His timing was all wrong as was his Maths. He just could not count. Abbott, Abetz, Andrews, Hate Radley, Bolt, Jones and the rest of the 2GBiased hard righters will be cleaning the egg off their faces for months. Morrison will save a few seats and that’s about it. Dutts would have lost even more. I have won good money up here-I bet several people Dutts would never be PM. The nation was already as far right as it could go without completing a full 360. From the biggest portfolio ever invented to a feather duster in a couple of days! Being PM he had a good chance to save his seat (see my letter in today’s Sydney Mourning Herald)-incumbency plus the authority to pour unlimited money into his seat. That Ace has gone.
I am getting-Desali and desandliz5@ again! Anybody else?
It was either Dutton, who makes jokes about the impact of rising sea-levels on Pacific Islanders or Morrison, a guy who finds it hilarious to brandish a lump of coal in the Parliament & tells lies about their tripling of the deficit.
I’m mostly JackS but was Desali tonight. Just delete & fill in your own details.
Shucks Bella – we will have to stop meeting like this or people will start to gossip 🙂
I don’t think Turnbull outsmarted anyone but himself. He thought he’d nip this in the bud with a cheeky spill on Tuesday (? or was it Monday), catching Dutts mob unawares. Even then they came up with 35 and as such the confidence and momentum to lead us directly to where we are, and Turnbull isn’t, right now.
And for people to suggest Morrison is a cleanskin – balls! He and all those that voted for Turnbull over Abbott own this. Abbott delivered a landslide and Turnbull turned that into a 1 seat majority, which he may soon be vacating.
As for ssm, that was the result of Abbott’s decision to hold a plebiscite.
Turnbull has been nothing but trouble since joining the party. The title of chief wrecker goes to him.
He ran rings around the Dutton camp.
Well ScoMo got up but only by 45-40. Still that’s enough and I doubt Dutton will challenge agaaggagin, nor do I think he will retain his seat. Morrison, like Dutton, has a bit of baggage too, and is still relatively new to politics, and that is why the libs best bet at this time would have been Bishop.
And if Turnbull rang rings around the Dutton camp he’s got an odd reward.
I’d go along with all that Milton.
Yeah , same here …
Bassy – well done, you found some mates to pay up early. I think that this was probably Dutton’s only chance but who would have predicted anything at all that’s happened since November 24, 2007? Who in 1987 ever thought Howard would be PM for 11 years? Or at all.
Well Howard should gave been gone after ONE term…he lost the majority vote in the GST election. Labors votes fell in already safe seats instead of the much needed marginals.
They talk about Howard being a great leader but nobody since Federation has had the luck he has had…rivers of revenue. He even admitted himself ‘the times have suited me’.
You sound like a cow cocky!
Yep I need desalinating too, Bassy.
What a shocker of a day – but great to see Dutton outsmarted by Malcolm. What a wazzock.
He may as well start looking for another job. Buckleys chance if retaining his seat now.
Nah!
ScoMo outsmarted the lot of them.
Hilarious on Paul Murray on Fri night – complete spectrum of ideas ranging from Conroy to Bronwyn Bishop.
Gave a pretty good idea of the difficulty of any politician’s job in navigating a subject to achieve a result.
Was Scott Morrison an each way bet ? As for the vote 45-40 there’s unity for you …
“Peter Dutton reached for the leadership trophy and found himself clutching a funeral urn instead. He will be lucky to avoid seeing his career turn to ashes”
A quote from a newspaper recently Mr. Insider.
The less we see of ex ousted wrecker PM Tony Abbott the better too imho.
Shocking and shameful times, Mr. Insider. I have always had the view the PM and his/her Government must face the Voters. Turnbull got what he dished out so no sympathy for him imho he was hopeless, 38 Consecutive Negative Newspolls can’t be wrong!
Already Newspapers touting a Landslide Electoral Victory for Bill Shorten when we do go to the Polls.
https://tinyurl.com/y9d3df9d
And all Peter Dutton could say was “we should make sure that we beat Bill Shorten”….thank God we dodged the bullet of having him as PM. Now to concentrate on the important things in life, the AFL finals and the success of Liverpool in the EPL.
I’m with you mate, same circus different clown.
Speaking of important things Penny, my Cowboys last home game for this season was an incredible win tonight for North Queensland 44-6 & the final game at home for Jonathan Thurston, a true champion of the NRL.
Now Bassy, will your Bunnies reach the GF do you think?
I’ve been gifted a GF ticket this year from a fanatical Rabbitohs friend & I don’t mind saying that the very idea of being in ‘The Burrow’ terrifies & excites me at the same time! Go Souths!
He also said Scott Morrison has his absolute support ….. LMAO……
You have your priorities in exactly the right order! Well done! If you also like beer and fishing, I’ll nominate you as Woman of the Century.
And no-one now seems to know what the whole thing achieved…
Except that it’s probably done for Dutton’s PM aspirations. Never say never I s’pose.
Well, it got rid of Turnbull, and hopefully Paris.
Oh well, Sco Mo the fall guy. Now they have someone to blame when they lose the next election.
Depends. Do we see the ScoMo who stopped the boats, or the ScoMo who tried to sell us Turnbull’s policies? We’ll find out if Frydenberg starts talking about the NEG again. If that policy isn’t dead, the Coalition will be.
Business and the electorate as a whole are demanding the NEG or something like it, including emission reduction targets. The right-wing so-called “base” of the Liberal Party – a few tens of thousands of people at most – have demonstrated that they are willing to tear the government apart rather than allow it. The Coalition is dead either way.
I like the way it’s being spun as a masterplan for a new generation. When you still have cadavers like Andrews and Abetz roaming the corridors like Marley’s ghost, it ain’t anything of the sort.
Something that interests me is the composition of the parliament. This page is helpful, although it’s a couple of governments behind (mentions Wyatt Roy – there’s the new generation, gone already!)
https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/rp/rp1314/43rdParl
What I’m thinking is that issues like climate and power networks are pretty much out of reach for this crowd. There’s a lot of smart cookies, enough to come to grips with a lot of difficult and even intractable issues. But, just looking at power generation and networks, there’s no-one that I can see with any expertise and I think its stuff that you need to understand deeply. Not saying that I do, but it has, perhaps perversely, interested me since I was a sprog, partly from spending a lot of holiday time in the Snowy while they were building the Snowy Mountains Scheme. So sure, they have advisors. But they then go away and develop policy based (maybe) on what the advisors tell them. Only with their own particular slant on the matters. This is something that clearly doesn’t come easily. And whilst Frydenburg has lost most of his hair coming up with the NEG and doubtless tried his best to make it work, he’s also the bloke who foolishly derided South Australia’s energy mix based on the results of a catastrophic storm. Our power future is not in good hands, but I think that over *much* time, despite the convolutions that it puts our politicians through, the mix will inexorably change to something that works. Energy seems to have been at the heart of the bizarre political behaviour of the last 11 years. Maybe it’s just some sort of national growing pains. The bunfight we had to have?
And the only person in parliament who I am aware of with a science degree (not medicine) is…
Scott Morrison.
The problem is ideological TV.
The subsidies to renewable made the Coal fired generators unprofitable and unreliable – cause and effect.
There is a need for base load and even a Green Germany is pragmatic enough to build 4 very dirty coal stations to make up for the short fall from closing down the nukes.
Our starry eyed Greens and lefties do not care if they DE-industralise this country completely whereas the more pragmatic ones are saying that we need some new ones to bring the prices down.
Then they shout gas but we export all our gas.
SA would not work at the moment without the East coast connectors.
GFG at Whyalla is going to put in a 280 megawatt solar powered setup with 780,000 panels.
Peak demand is about 35,000 mega watts which means we would need 97 million solar panels and god knows how many batteries.
Maybe we should be investing in making our own panels
God forbid that we should actually make things JS!
Yes, its ideological in various directions and that’s what we have to get out of our systems. It might take a (real) generation. Pun unavoidable. I’m all for a sane transition to renewables that are well designed and thought out, and possibly a big effort with Thorium reactors, but that’s probably waaaay to far out there. I think that the coal obsession of the LNP (Coal-ition is just too obvious to use any longer) is based on (a) jobs (so seats in Central Qld and elsewhere) and, very likely, lobbying from the big coal producers. It’s obvious but the LNP just can’t sell it in a logical fashion. I see the problems – it’s going to take time. I could go on. I won’t.
Canberra Writers Festival is on this weekend. There’s been some interesting political matchups (interesting for a writer’s festival) which will not have gone as planned given the change of script during the week. ‘Good and Bad Kenny’ looked interesting and the fossil JWH got a gig too. But this afternoon I’m going to catch Irvine Welsh (Trainspotting) being interviewed by Richard Fidler. Should make a welcome change. I think he’s just come from Trump’s America and has been uncomplimentary to The Donald on Twitter. Which is fire and which is frying pan?
JS you are seriously delusional. You are again highlighting your complete lack of knowledge on anything to do with energy. This is just more of your conspiracy theory rubbish. Renewables daily account for about 15% of all power generated in Australia and it will rise over the next decade, Gas will be the transition fuel coal will continue as ALL parties know for another 30 years by which time NEW Technology will have replaced it. 7 Million people a year die from health issues directly related to Air pollution mostly caused by particulate from coal fire generation. That is reason enough to find newer better power technologies. you are stuck in a time warp echo chamber.
“cadavers” still laughing 😉
Bet when he got put of bed on Monday he never thought he would be PM by Friday!
I was going to write exactly the same thing, Boa. I could also add that Turnbull probably didn’t think he’d be enjoying his lively grandson, Jack’s company as soon and as much as he will now.
btw that young lad has got a fair slice of the grand-dad in him. he may one day be our President!
I should also add that in his speech Turnbull regretted the invasion of privacy and associated annoyances that his kids had to face as a result of his public position, and fair enough, I agree, but don’t put them in the spotlight. Lucy is a different matter, for obvious reasons.
ps. all we need now is for Shorten to be served a cold chiko roll and it’s game on!
PM Turnbull never won a seat for the Liberals Mack. He lost them all remember. We all know where the culpability rests.