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.
Over 1,400 government officials in Western Australia used the phrase ‘Password123’ as the password for their entrance into government agencies, a security audit of the Western Australian government released this week revealed.
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/08/25/report-over-a-quarter-of-australian-officials-used-password123-as-government-password/
And the ‘Secret’ Nuclear Missile Launch Code during the Cold War was 00000000
you do understand that Fiarfax owns the epicenter of the vast Murdoch conspiracy
But it’s such a vast conspiracy that it even swept in the Fairfax mob. Conspiracy theories never need to be anchored in reality.
Newspoll just out shows a disastrous mess for the Coalition, Mr. Insider. It would have been ex-PM Turnbull’s 39th shocker but in fairness, its taken too close to the coup to count against PM Morrison so we shall have to wait for the next one to reset Scotts “counter” to 1
On reflection, Mr. Insider lets make this Morrison’s 1st Negative Newspoll, after all, he was in Turnbull’s Leadership Team.
Strike 1, Scott Morrison and what a shocker it was!
So, ……Dutton is off the job for 5 minutes and it seems a couple of dozen A-S s have nipped into the Daintree.
I do hope they don’t try to swim the Daintree. Dutton out of his office for a few days, and this happens. Good to see him back.
nope
ONE and counting
KATtheHAT wont need to feed the crocodiles then.
A fair few of my comments have gone into the ether somewhere, Jack. I don’t think they were offensive to warrant being deleted. I wonder where they are?
Seem to work okay from my laptop. But the ones sent via smartphone may be the problem – and I think the ones that had JSprat address already filling the name and email tabs did not make it – even though I overwrote with my details.
Bit strange.
Anyway one of the disappeared ones may be worth repeating, viz. TA can mark Julie Bishop off as another notch in his belt. What a snake that man is. It’s a great shame – she was a great asset to this country and did valuable work behind the scenes that probably never made the headlines. We’ll miss her for sure. Her successor will be hard pressed to match up to her.
Certainly haven’t deleted anything, Boa. I’ll have a long chat with the tech but from what people are telling me the comments are disappearing on mobile devices.
If Abbott is a snake then what are Gillard and Turnbull…….
They’re gone Razor, out the door, just as Abbott should be.
Can’t he just exit the building once & for all?
I wonder if he’s scared of finding a job with his glaringly deceitful reputation.
Weasels.
Little furry bunny rabbits
Let’s give credit where it’s due, Razor. Turnbull saved the Libs from the disaster that was Tony Abbott. They were heading for annihilation with TA as PM. TA seems to have forgotten all about that.
MT made the mistake of not going to an election immediately – they would have got a big majority then and things could have been very different now. Sadly he played the nice guy and paid the price.
Whatever the historians make of his leadership I think he tried to be conciliatory – but in our parliament of today he was doomed. I don’t think he was as bad a people make out. Not defending him – that’s just my opinion. He doesn’t need the rough and tumble of the Australian parliament in his life. Who does?
I do not know enough about the union factions to comment on Gillard. I gather though that she would have done as she was instructed to do by the faceless men? Rudd was becoming a problem.
bish got FM down pat. Real good
shadow finance stint was completely shit though.
Strengths and weaknesses
PM Scott Morrisons 1st Ministry and Outer Ministry, Mr. Insider.
Michael McCormack, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Infrastructure and Transport.
Marise Payne, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Simon Birmingham, Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment
Mathias Cormann, Minister for Finance, Special Minister of State, Leader of the Government in the Senate
Josh Frydenberg, Treasurer
Kelly O’Dwyer, Minister for Women, Minister for Jobs and Industrial Relations
Christopher Pyne, Minister for Defence
Steve Ciobo, Minister for Defence Industry
Darren Chester, Minister for Veterans’ Affairs, Minister for Defence Personnel, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Centenary of ANZAC
Christian Porter, Attorney-General
Peter Dutton, Minister for Home Affairs
David Coleman, Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs
Michaelia Cash, Minister for Small Business, Skills and Vocational Education
Matthew Canavan, Minister for Resources and Northern Australia
Mitch Fifield, Minister for Communications, Minister for the Arts
Greg Hunt, Minister for Health
Bridget McKenzie, Minister for Rural Health, Minister for Sport, Minister for Regional Communications
Dan Tehan, Minister for Education and Training
Michael Keenan, Minister for Human Services, Minister for Digital Transformation
Paul Fletcher, Minister for Families and Social Services
Melissa Price, Minister for the Environment
Angus Taylor, Minister for Energy
David Littleproud, Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources
Nigel Scullion, Minister for Indigenous Affairs
David Coleman, Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs
Alan Tudge, Minister for Cities, Urban Infrastructure and Population
Outer Ministry
Anne Ruston, Assistant Minister for International Development
Linda Reynolds CSC, Assistant Minister for Home Affairs
Ken Wyatt, Minister for Aged Care Minister for Indigenous Health
Sarah Henderson, Assistant Minister for Social Services, Housing and Disability Services
Michelle Landry, Assistant Minister for Children and Families
Mark Coulton, Assistant Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment
David Fawcett, Assistant Minister for Defence
Stuart Robert, Assistant Treasurer
Zed Seselja, Assistant Minister for Treasury and Finance
Sussan Ley, Assistant Minister for Regional Development and Territories
Andrew Broad, Assistant Minister to the Deputy Prime Minister
Scott Buchholz, Assistant Minister for Roads and Transport
Steve Irons, Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister
Thanks Henry, that information was not available elsewhere.
why we have had so many changes of PM in such a short time.
For mine the major driver has been the presence of Kevin Rudd and then Malcolm Turnbull, two leaders who were not really Party people. Not steeped in the history of their parties, neither with a long record of service in the party, with all the friendships and connections that go with that.
We have always had big egos in the top job, our best PM in my lifetime had a narcissitic personality disorder, but these two always thought they were the smartest person in the room, any room really.
They were both ungenerous and disrespectful to fellow members, disparaging of them by and large, treating comrades with contempt often enough.
They neither gave loyalty nor got much in return.
Disruptors both of them.
Other factors as well. Machine men doing the party’s bidding but not the people’s. Rudd’s execution a case in point. That was a disaster. This one I wager is worse. All the Libs seems to have done is to take out a relatively popular leader and replaced him with an unpopular one. Newspoll today, 56-44. Shorten preferred PM. Ouch.
The other thing Rudd and Turnbull had in common was a long history of stalking and taking out people in their own party.
its goes back to when Rudd decided that he wanted to be Opposition spokesman on Foreign Affairs, so he stalked Laurie Brereton until he got the job. He did the same to Latham, Beazley and Crean, never ever loyal to the leader or to his colleagues.
Turnbull’s record is even worse. Peter King in the Wentworth pre-selection, Brendan Nelson to get the leadership first time around, Tony Abbott to get the PM job, and finally Dutton to make sure he didn’t.
How can the media listen quietly while these two rabbit on about other people bullying and being disloyal when they have been the major perpetrators of it for the last fifteen years.
both had bad reputations for this even before entering parliament, Rudd in the Goss government and Turnbull in business, and it carried over in government.
It would not be a surprise to see a deal more stability now that we have seen the last of them.
I think what the Liberals have done is what they should have done a year ago, get rid of a poor PM, one who is a terrible communicator and a worse campaigner.
I think Richo is spot on about that.
There is plenty of time for Morrison to settle his government in, and I certainly believe he can beat Shorten.
Not will beat Shorten, but can, I doubt Morrison will run a campaign as bad as Turnbull’s last effort.
I agree but what they have done is swap him for a bloke who isn’t popular. It doesn’t make sense to do this now, dropping six points on the 2PP with an election eight months or less away. The Rudd comment I accept although the electorate never did understand why he was punted. With Malcolm and the Libs it’s more than a toxic figure at the top. The party can’t reconcile the extent of views in terms of ideology and policy and it has ceased to function.
This country just lost two fine people, jack. Turnbull and Bishop. Both of them were an asset that will be sorely missed.
You seem to have forgotten Abbott?
The coalition were trailing by just 49-50 or so and Turnbull was the preferred PM. Why in God’s name would you replace him with those numbers? They had a chance of winning the next election. Now they are looking at the biggest rout of all time.
Turnbull must be laughing – and be relieved to be out of it.
If you want Party People, you can find them on Trivago. Or so we are told.
So …., the 29th PM was “axed”, so say some of the so called journos. Such is their lazy approach to describing a most significant and praiseworthy event so far this century. This medieval language must stop!
Of course, those who are curious unattached bystanders to recent events would opine that he was simply and gently ushered out of office because his grandiose view of his own talents, bordering on narcissism, eventually outstripped his ability to continue his base personality trait of manipulation, exploitation and deceit; thereby negating any future potential for him to exercise even the rudimentary essentials for an ongoing success in and an understanding of the everyday activities associated with the good governance of our country.
In short, he never, ever had any political nous.
you are part of the delusional minority. No Surprises.
You’ve been spouting the same tedious, predictable nonsense since the inception of this blog and you still haven’t cottoned on mate.
cotc, it is yo who has not “cottoned on” your conservative delusions is wrong. Menzies started the Liberals to get rid of cons like you.
As Menzies put it in his slight memoir, Afternoon Light. We took the name “Liberal” because we were determined to be a progressive party, willing to make experiments; in no sense reactionary, but believing in the individual, his rights and his enterprise…
Weird. A man whose base personality traits are manipulation, exploitation and deceit has never ever had any political nous? Which planet are you calling from today?
I would go with defenestrated. Much more evocative.
Turncoat didn’t have enough political nous, as you say Carl, but considering he didn’t actually believe in anything the Fibs stand for, he lasted a while. A man without a spine is already drowning in his own cowardice & I’d also say he made a very poor investment when he paid for that job because he got on board the wrong ship.
Never mind though, that massive coverage of solar panels on his Pt Piper mansion will be keeping his power bills non-existent, so his budget will soon recover. 😘
Henwy Blofeld. This is appalling, atavistic, these bloody barbarians at NASA are murdering live bugs in their experiments.
https://www.tested.com/science/459632-nasa-bugs-get-splattered-science/
Thank you for that article, Mr. Baptiste right on line with my interest if the “heavens”. I say wouldn’t it be lovely if when NASA sends another Manned Laning to the Moon they pick “Tranquility Base” to land on and even better right beside the Apollo 11 Lander Module which has been sitting there since July ’69. Cheers
Yes, for an Education Minister, Birmingham is a slow learner.