Scott Morrison is Australia’s sixth prime minister in eleven years, having prevailed in the second round of the party room vote by 45 votes to 40. Julie Bishop was eliminated after the first round: there are reports the vote was Dutton 38, Morrison 36 and Bishop 11. Josh Frydenberg replaces Julie Bishop after nearly eleven years as deputy, having won 46 votes against 20 for Steve Ciobo and 16 for Greg Hunt. Over to you.
@Rex
ScoMo will still lose the election because of what happened.
Rex Douglas @ #549 Friday, August 24th, 2018 – 7:00 pm
Yep. The guy who crafted a policy, with Malcolm Turnbull, to give $444 Million to Fossil Fuel and Bank bigwigs to throw parties while the GBR dies in front of their eyes and the other guy who wanted to give them $80 Billion in tax breaks, are now running the country! I think they played us ALL off a break!
Rex Douglas @ #549 Friday, August 24th, 2018 – 5:00 pm
There’s a wonderful GIF doing the rounds on social media of Dutton shown post ballot standing behind Morrison glaring at him with a WTF was that? look, and Morrison giving someone a thumbs up. Said it all for me.
Zoidlord @ #544 Friday, August 24th, 2018 – 7:04 pm
Yes the voters will savage the Coalition.
Confessions: Several people I spoke to today had never heard of Morrison either.
And my Liberal friends on Facebook have been up in arms this week, not holding back in posting their outrage at Dutton and Abbott, while some even swearing they’re starting a new political party.
They’re not esp enamoured of Morrison, but as is the way with Liberals, will just hold their noses come the next election and give the party their first or second preference.
sprocket_ @ #534 Friday, August 24th, 2018 – 3:39 pm
Wasn’t Michael McCormack making noises about wanting more and renegotiating the Coalition agreement.
With Hogan out of the the combined Partyroom the Nationals have a smaller presence and as such should have a correspondingly smaller say. 🙂
Bolt on giving ScoMo a chance:
‘don’t forget this was a guy who said no to same-sex marriage and who brought a lump of coal into Parliament’. ROFL.
Asha Leu @ #560 Friday, August 24th, 2018 – 4:07 pm
No one I’ve spoken to today knows any of them! 🙂
Keeping up the good fight (at least from his perspective):
LNP president backs Turnbull ‘wreckers’
6:51PMJARED OWENS
Gary Spence has pledged to “stand with and support” renegade Queensland MPs whom Malcolm Turnbull savaged earlier. (Oz headline)
Asha:
When talking about politics with friends or colleagues I’m always reminded that most people are largely disengaged from day to day politics.
On reflection, I think the nation has dodged a bullet. ScoMo might be bad, but not on the same level as Dutton, who would have ramped up Law and Order, Muslim and Sudanese bashing, and showering taxpayer’s dollars on coal fired power stations – and via the TERRORISM THREAT brought in laws allowing police to stop and interrogate citizens on the street.
We may need to pray to ScoMo’s god, in tongues of course, to save us from a worse fate than him.
Think about this. If Cormann, Cash and Fifield had stayed with MT, MT would have won today’s Spill. On Wednesday, when MT, Cormann and ScoMo had press conference to declare company tax will not be taken to next election, Cormann said that he is loyal to MT and would remain loyal to him. Then next day he, Fifield and Cash declared they withdraw their support to MT because Dutton has majority support.
I even watched Bolt until I heard that his next guest was Pauline Hanson.
That’s enough of these nutjobs for me
The ABC coverage is pretending that Labor doesn’t exist, that all the nation’s problems can and will be solved within the Liberal party, that it’s all positive for ScoMo.
Even the rare vox pops of Labor supporters are negative for Labor’s chances. ScoMo da man!
It’s been like a half-hour infomercial for the Liberal party and ScoMo. Yay! also for Turnbull, and Boo! Hiss! for Dutton and his fellow plotters
According to the ABC Labor is “lying low”.
Pretty disgusting, actually. Been like this for days, months. I’m getting pretty sick of it, myself.
Ven says:
Friday, August 24, 2018 at 7:21 pm
Think about this. . . .
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I’m thinking, and be that as it may
The LURE of the PMship must be something to behold. A lure beyond compare.
They all seem to fall over themselves, and bugger the party, to get it.
Gillard included.
Nicholas@6:4pm1
Touche’
Why would Labor want to say much today when the Libs do it all for them?
BB
Yeah, you would have thought it wasn’t too much to ask for the ABC to get one senior Labor minister in to discuss the LNP shambles given the polls show more than 50% would vote for them.
Bushfire Bill @ #565 Friday, August 24th, 2018 – 7:30 pm
Join the club!
In all of the polls Morrison scored by far the least. In one that I recall he polled just 6.6%. Also, Neil Mitchell this morning was asking his listeners for their preference and there was hardly a single one for Morrison – to the extent that Mitchell dropped him from the exercise and just focused on Bishop and Dutton.
Does anyone know who the Green’s selected to run in Wentworth? It was supposed to be announced at 10 am this morning.
BB
Labor don’t need to say anything at present.
They can observe all the shenanigans. Listen to all the assessments and dissections of what has transpired. And this includes observing what Morrison is saying now that he is PM.
Labor can spend this time to formulate their own game plan in response
Driving home ABC radio had vox pops of Liberal voters on the new leader. A lifelong Liberal voter confidently declared he was not going to vote Liberal at the next election, and then (unbelievably to me) said he’d vote Labor if Shorten wasn’t the leader. But as Shorten is Labor leader, no way, no how.
When quizzed further he said he’d probably vote for PHON. Yeah right. Not voting Liberal because Turnbull is no longer leader and preferred PHON over Labor because of Shorten? I switched to FM at that point. At least FM radio doesn’t bother trying to mask its vacuousness.
Ides
Why? For balance. Morrison PM has hairs & the ABC don’t want to discuss them.
Victoria says:
Friday, August 24, 2018 at 7:30 pm
I even watched Bolt until I heard that his next guest was Pauline Hanson.
That’s enough of these nutjobs for me
Bolt, for whom no lie is too stinky to state; for whom racism is a commonplace. We came very close to having their delegate sworn in as PM. They are waiting for their next opportunity.
Ven @ #559 Friday, August 24th, 2018 – 7:21 pm
Cormann is a snake in the grass
Douglas and Milko @ #568 Friday, August 24th, 2018 – 7:38 pm
Some Deputy Maypor or some such
Darn:
Perhaps the reason Morrison polled the fewest votes is because nobody knows who he is.
Ides of March.not logged in @ #568 Friday, August 24th, 2018 – 7:35 pm
Labor should be taking this opportunity to prosecute their case, just when the electorate would be most receptive. Anyway the ABC has generally failed to get anyone from Labor, even ex-PMs etc, who I think would love to appear.
Anyway, I recall when Labor leadership was in crisis, Liberals were given may opportunities to get stuck into Labor.
Labor are wise to stay as far away as possible from this train wreck.
Hercule Poirot would be muchly embarrassed by the perfidity of his countryman.
One is Frydenberg, but who is the other bloke?
Kezza2@7:34pm
My post was about Cormann. He didn’t want to be PM. He wanted the most dangerous man in Australian parliament to be the PM. With his support to MT, all this sordid episode could have been avoided. MT lost spill 40-45. If Cormann, Cash and Fifield stayed with MT, the spill motion would have been defeated.
These were the standover men:
Conservative headkickers. Supposedly Christian. Without a drop of the milk of human kindness.
Fifield, Cormann and cash cop a spray from David Crowe as well:
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/peter-dutton-and-the-other-losers-will-be-lucky-to-avoid-seeing-his-career-turn-to-ashes-20180824-p4zzn8.html
Who’s this idiot talking about “a new generation of leaders”. Bring back Cormann, all is forgiven.
briefly
You might be right. Dan Tehan on 7.30 now making a very strong case for why the LNP shouldn’t be returned.
This will be remembered as a deeply traumatic episode by most voters. The less Labor have to do with it the better for them.
This will be remembered as a deeply traumatic episode by most voters. The less Labor have to do with it the better for them.
Yep – Labor & Shorten just needed to sit on the sideline and watch today.
I did notice Crabb sniggered about the Labor leadership out in the community today – shows a lot about our media.
It is a good thing that Uhlmann and Cassidy back up Turnbull about media ‘players’. I’m not sure it’ll change anything but it is good a few have acknowledged
And the conga line continues…
With the 38 named what will be the reaction to them at the next election?
We may well get an indication at the upcoming Victorian State election in the Liberal (religious conservative) seats of Andrews, Sukkar, Tunge and Wood
And Hunt
IF it is “wipe out” time for many of that 38, who is left?
And what direction does the Liberal Party go in then?
It will come down to who is left standing after the next election
Those who orchestrated this challenge have lost because they only numbered 40 (of 84) AND have just maybe killed off their future prospects of control because many of the 40 may not be returned
Confessions, Nat leader I think?
And another thing. The betrayal by Cormann and Fifield is even more profound because they were Leader and deputy leader of LNP in Senate.
Linda Burney was on 702 Sydney ABC with Richard Glover today.
briefly @ #589 Friday, August 24th, 2018 – 7:45 pm
Don’t agree. There is never a better time than when your opponent is on their knees, to reinforce your superiority and the obvious contrast between them and you.
Labor has nothing to lose in doing that, not that I believe that the ABC has asked them.
Yes, I agree Fess. I think Morrison has a bit of a task lifting his profile, with not very much time to do it.
NE Qld @ #593 Friday, August 24th, 2018 – 5:48 pm
Of course, you are right. I can never place him!
Yes, I think that’s who it is too.
I can never remember his name!