Turnbull 45, Nelson 41

As most of you would be aware by now, Malcolm Turnbull has won the Liberal leadership after defeating Brendan Nelson 45 votes to 41. Nelson won the post-election vote 45 votes to 42: not sure where the missing vote went (UPDATE: Kevin Andrews was overseas and didn’t vote – hat-tip to Dovif in comments).

Also:

• The latest weekly Essential Research survey has Labor’s lead back at 58-42 after a fortnight at 59-41. Also included are questions on approval of Kevin Rudd, the future of the Coalition and federalism.

• Peter Brent asks what became of the government’s green paper on disclosure, funding and expenditure issues, which was due in July.

• The Australian Electoral Commission has published comments on objections to the redistribution of Western Australian electorates.

• Bryan’s back.

Author: William Bowe

William Bowe is a Perth-based election analyst and occasional teacher of political science. His blog, The Poll Bludger, has existed in one form or another since 2004, and is one of the most heavily trafficked websites on Australian politics.

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  2. While I like The Hollowmen, i think Yes Minister is far better. Instead of having the civil servants look like idiots it made them smart and the politicians idiotically stupid.

    No political show can come close to the genius of Yes Minister/Prime Minister.

  9. Could someone please explain for me the statements made by a number of people that GP’s avatar is the “union jack”?

    On my desktop, it comes up as the GOP logo.

    Is there some reason why it would come up differently on different computers?

  43. Diogenes@617 –

    People now die after long chronic diseases now, which take up an enormous amount of admissions etc. They used to die fairly quick deaths.

    Yes, and that’s the rub. I wonder how many people would continue to demand the full on treatment if they realised what is often the longer term consequence – a long, slow, miserable death.

    My, by then nearly 100 y.o., Dad was offered a pacemaker when it was noticed his heart sometimes stopped beating for up to 4 seconds or so, and grabbed it with both hands. Two years later had a major stroke, which is not unusual because blood tends to clot on the pacemaker leads and warfarin doesn’t always solve the problem. Took him 18 months of much pain and suffering to regain something close to a quality life only to be hit by another stroke massive enough to render him mostly unresponsive but not enough to kill him. So with no hope of recovery he was given what is called ‘comfort care’ which is a nice way of saying: slowly starved and finally dehydrated to death. Took a month. Not pretty. Without the pacemaker he might well have lived just as long, but without the trauma, and probably would have died peacefully in his sleep.

    Sometimes death is not the worst thing that can happen to you!

  48. No 696

    The amendments transmute a dog’s breakfast into a dog’s brothel, making the stupid tax even more difficult to administer.

    If the Greens were serious, they’d argue for the tax’s abolition in favour of one that taxes vehicles according to emissions and fuel economy standards.

  50. The amendments transmute a dog’s breakfast into a dog’s brothel, making the stupid tax even more difficult to administer.

    Kinda like the GST after the Democrats got to it GP?

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