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.
Oh well, another notch for Abbott’s belt.
Julie Bishop was a good foreign minister and someone we could be proud of representing Australia.
The Political fallout continues, Mr. Insider as Julie Bishop resigns as Foreign Minister but will stay on for now as an MP. Many will rue the day they joined “Duttons Our Mutton” driven of course by the vengeful ex-ousted PM Tony Abbott who FGS must quit Parliament forever and now!
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Big loss this one if as seems likely she does retire from the parliament.
I think she deserves the role of G-G when it becomes vacant. Indeed, a huge loss to the government.
Harden up Blofeld, it’s just a bit of collateral as the magnificent Avenger Abbott seeks to leave not one stone upon another in his quest to cleanse the party. You have to crack a few eggs to make an omelet!
Rock on Tony!
A lot of major players got their just desserts this past week:
Malcolm Turnbull, for shafting Brendan Nelson and Tony Abbott (even though Abbott was hopeless).
Peter Dutton, for precipitating the recent events.
Tony Abbott (who didn’t see his man, Dutton, get the top job), for shafting Turnbull twice. If Abbott wins a Ministry from the rubble, it would be a travesty.
All of Dutton’s backers, for being silly enough to go along with Dutton’s nonsense.
I see that Julie Bishop has announced she’s leaving at the next election. Good on her. She was probably the Coalition’s strongest performer as a Minister and she was badly treated by her colleagues.
I’d love to see the results of an election held today – a bus shelter would be big enough to house any Coalition winners.
Mr Rabbit has been appointed prime ministers special envoy for indigenous affairs. Meantime the egregious Scullion is still minister…
I hope the last two games are an omen for Geelong.
It’s about time they won another flag.
There is talk of Scum Morrison bringing Abbott back to
the frontbench…it would be suicide! You reward treachery
like this? Abbott should be kicked out of his seat and this
tyme without Turnstyles to save him there is a real chance.
It’ll be back to business as usual within a week – the mad right trying to bring down Morrison, Abbott plotting madly and the 2GBiased shock jocks and The Terror screaming for a shift further to the right.
DUTTS-Can’t bowl-can’t count!
The theory is based on sound precedent, better to have Abbott inside the tent pissing out, except in this case he’s likely to be pissing all over the shop.
disendorse him. I expect him to have already organised other employment
In your dreams, smoke. He’s going to hang around seeking vengeance on Morrisson probably – for not getting a cabinet post. What rock is he living under?
Jti I’m seeing a gapped thread from 51 COMMENTS to 117
So whatever I did didn’t work. We’ll keep trying.
If you get this JTI I had 51 comments ten minutes ago, sent a post & it jumped to 147 comments for a page, then I went to Older Comments, now back to 51. Frustrating stuff. 🤐
currently147 back to zero, uninterrupted
Perfeck!!
ps Keith Pitt resigns. [????KeithKeith who da fxxx is Keith]
It will be very interesting, Mr. Insider who in the Lin/Nats pull the plug early, in the knowledge that barring a miracle there will soon be a Shorten Labor government. The usual reason is that they want to spend more time with “family and frenz”.
Good riddance I say, far too many non performers sucking on the Taxpayers teat!
I cannot see any reason at all for ex-ousted PM Tony Abbott continuing in any position, including languishing disgracefully on the Backbench. He of all people has had a massive bite of the Taxpayers dollar but when PM did not want anyone else to have even a nibble. Low Bastard!
The era of Entitlement was over he and his idiot of a Treasurer screamed, but NOT for them!
I agree with someone earlier in the blog. Put Abbott in the cabinet and there will be more resignations.
The man has proved he’s a nasty piece of work – used Dutton to achieve his vendetta – thank God it back-fired. I wonder if he had Credlin phoning around? Why reward someone capable of that behaviour? There are others who can take a spot on the cabinet.
I think the whole of Australia has had enough of Abbott. Sadly the connection does his sister no good.
Balderdash! Abbott is a living breathing national treasure. More power to the Bott!
they did reward someone capable of that behaviour, Malcolm Bligh Turnbull, who took down Peter King, Brendan Nelson, Tony Abbott, Tony Abbott,Peter Dutton, and that was just in politics, his record in business includes shafting Nick Whitlam amongst others.
…..and Tony’s hanging in. Guess we can expect more of the same then – as JB says, real entertainment – not.
Vale John McCain. A decent man and honest politician. Wondering how Trump will respond. He’s badly compromised whatever he says.
A decent gent. I’ll never forget his comments after losing to Obama. Last night I went to sleep, woke up and cried myself back to sleep, woke up and cried myself back to sleep, woke up and cried myself back to sleep…
Dead boring
RIP Sen McCain, at least he stuck to his political morals when most of his party didn’t.
Yes, he was a very fine Republican.
I heard of his death just now, Tracy from your post. Only yesterday I read that he was putting a stop to medications involved with his brain cancer. A tough man and a loss to US politics.