List of MPs who voted for Malcolm Turnbull in Australian PM spill

/ September 15, 2015

Readers please note- The information below is out of date as it is based on information available at the time it was posted. An accurate list updated according to more recent information is available here

I suspect the lowlife in the Liberal Party who betrayed Tony Abbott have severely misjudged public sentiment. All the feedback on social media and talkback radio projects a deep rage within the electorate at Malcolm Turnbull and his actions. This rage is not only targeting Turnbull, its directed at Julie Bishop and many of the others who were complicit in betraying Abbott. Even Scott Morrison is receiving flack for not being more outwardly supportive.

I think the Australian voters are entitled to know the names of each of those Liberal politicians who had a hand in driving the knife into Abbott, so I have decided to compile a list here of the names I know.

These people think our anger will fade. Not mine. This was a despicable act and they should wear their treachery for the rest of their political careers.

These are the Liberal Party reps who are known to have remained loyal to Tony Abbott. (43 names including Tony Abbott)

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There are 54 who voted for Turnbull. This number includes Turnbull himself. Two arrived too late to vote, (Dean Smith and Michael Ronaldson) but indicated they would have voted for Turnbull anyway. So I have included them in the list.

So there are 56 betrayers. I have 55 names listed below. We are still short one name. By a process of elimination it has to be one of these-

Bill Heffernan or Angus Taylor.

One of these goes to the list of loyals above. One goes to the disloyal below. If anyone can help with identifying this last betrayer it would be much appreciated.

Update 12th October.

I have been told by various sources that Angus Taylor was likely to have stayed loyal to Abbot. Louise comments that Angus Taylor sat next to TA at this weekend’s LP Conference, and that Taylor was also left out of the ministry. I think its fairly safe therefore to decide that Taylor voted for Abbot and Heffernan’s name should be added to the list of betrayers.

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141 thoughts on “List of MPs who voted for Malcolm Turnbull in Australian PM spill”

  1. Any wonder why so many people have become disengaged from the democratic process. It has been destroyed by a scum permanent political class.

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    • Yep, and then they go spare when someone like Donald Trump gets up. No matter what you like or don’t like about Trump, he listens to the voters and holds the MSM in contempt.

      Most other politicians today appear to do the opposite- hold the voters in contempt and grovel to the MSM.

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    • These pathetic creatures deserve whatever comes their way, treachery will ever be forgiven, unfortunately these scum bags will be in government after the next election,for me I hope that Turnbull could lose his seat but then I donot want Labor back in power. As for Julie Bishop, she has now become Julia Gillard of the Liberal Party.

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        • NO ! Glen Warren ,it was a case of Turnbull was destroying the Coalition . If you saw Turnbull in action as Oppostion Leader you would have noticed that Turnbull and. Rudd were playing games . Turnbull wanted an ETS and sided with Rudd,Labor ordering his backbench to vote with Labor . fortunately the Coalition and the Greens at that time in the Senate voted against it . Make no mistake ,after the next election , Turnbull WILL bring in an ETS . At the moment cunning Turnbull is trying to win over the population , which he will end up doing , just wait till after the next elections , he will force us to have an ETS

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    • By the grin on some faces today, I would add Sharman Stone, Theresa Gambaldi, and I heard that Ruddock also one of them. I’d say Hunt was a Turnbull man too! Morrison’s odd rejection of DL makes me suspicious too!

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      • We should all be suspicious of Turnbull’s real agenda for Australia’s future . Something really stinks . he is acting as Mr nice guy now to win everyone over , but wait and see after the next elections .

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  3. Bronwyn Bishop? The person who played a major part in undermining Abbott through her ridiculous expenses, who was shown (misguided) loyalty by Abbott until it was clear she had to step down. And this is how she repays him? What a sick joke

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  4. Tried to get our local Member for Bonner, Ross Vasta to stand up for the decision he made … but he uses “secret ballot” as his reason for not communicating with his electorate. You can add Andrew Lemming, Wyatt Roy – gleefully scored the front row marching in to the ceremony … Malcolm Brough …

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    • Little Wyatt forgets who brought him into parliament. I hope his constituents will let him know that they honour honesty and loyalty and throw him out at the next election.

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      • Agree, it was disappointing to see the lack of loyalty shown by Brandis, also Pyne and B Bishop. Tony Abbott was loyal to a fault and look what he got in return. I’m disgusted by the treatment of a kind and decent man by his own party, but also appalled by the hatred and bias shown by the state broadcaster from day one of the Abbott government. I’ve been working most of the last 2 years in Australia and have followed the coverage of political events by the Aussie media while there. The bias is unbelievable; if you think the NZ media is bad, Australia would shock you.

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  6. I have been asking Angus Taylor but am yet to get a response. If they can’t be accountable to the people how can they then claim to represent us?

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    • You will wait a long time for any answer from the boy child Taylor, The most useless MP ever elected, closely folliowed by his immediate predecessor the late and unlamented Alby Schultz

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  7. Fiona Scott (Lindsay) is not answering any enquiries (email, facebook & phone) regarding this but has posted very positively about MT.
    Pages of comments from LNP voters who think she voted against Tony Abbott.
    No comments from her.
    Comments from her friends regarding her hard work, upholding her right to support MT & her right not to inform the electorate.

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    • Well, one thing this shows is they must be very aware of how angry so many people are with this, which is a good thing. What I might do tomorrow when I have time is set up a “probable ” category, and then move them from there into the main list as they are confirmed to have voted for Turnbull.

      The thing is , this event will have a massive effect upon the Liberal Party for years to come, and voters have every damn right to know exactly who was responsible.

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  8. thank for the list.

    Hopefully you will be able to get the names of all the politicians who voted against Tony Abbott.

    Thank you.

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  9. None of them should dare use the title Honourable! They are not. Dismayed to see my MP, Ian McFarlane in the list.

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  10. So you are putting together a list of progressive politicians who understand what the electorate wants and who know that the electorate does not want self-opinionated, bible bashing, climate-change deniers. Gone are those politicians who, while accusing the public of living in “Entitlement”, are themselves the ones who rort their parliamentary entitlements …. about time!

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  11. What amazes me most about this list is the number of individuals there who either (a) owe their electorate seat directly to the influence and assistance of Mr Abbott, and (b) have been shown far more loyalty by Mr Abbott in the face of their own struggles, stumbles and mis-steps, than they have shown him.

    The term “traitor” is well-applied to each of the 55 names, none more so than Julie Bishop.

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  14. Was angry tonight watching the news. I really like Abbott and rate him as a real stand up Conservative. Then this Turnbull comes on and starts talking about trying to be like John Key. Alarm bells started going off, I was hoping that he wasn’t going to be a liberal. Then they listed that he was for same sex marriage and climate change. Yip a liberal!! Liberals seem to infiltrate everywhere so depressing!

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  15. Oh, and by the way – not sure what social media you are following, but my news-feeds are generally swaying to the Turnbull side and not supporting Abbott.

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    • What a load of tripe and blather, mostly from people who do not live in Oz or who cannot vote here. Almost every person through my business today preferred Turnbull to Abbott. A few thought that the change should coincide with an election, but that’s not how our system works.

      Abbott had his warning, he failed to act, he failed to lead and he failed to deliver. He kept banging on about “stopping the boats” when we all know he was giving to sub contract to Japan no matter the “competitive tender process”. He simply wanted to stop the boats being built in Oz.

      He presided over the destruction of the auto industry, and the enormous loss of revenue that will cause, as well as worsening the balance of payments. He was demented in his attacks on the ABC. And he has snapped up the entire supply of Australian flags for a generation.

      With Turnbull we will make progress on marriage equality, a republic and an open attitude to science, not one blinded by religiosity.

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        • *your, Rob. It’s ‘your’.

          “I suspect the lowlife in the Liberal Party who betrayed Tony Abbot have severely misjudged public sentiment.”

          Wrong.

          From the looks of my media feeds, I’m surprised there wasn’t dancing in the streets yesterday.

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      • Some more rubbish. Get your facts. I can imagine you running the country. Wow! what a misguided person you are. Read between the lines and if you were running a business would you give your approval to build something that would cost the country 20, 30, 40 and even 50% more than elsewhere? the auto industry where Labour provided funds, that was immediately spent by giving those same workers massive increases knowing full well that the industry was closing down? you must be an awfull businessman. Marriage equality? Hope you are not considering entering politics? I can imagine what you would do.

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  16. I assume your opening “what a load of tripe and blather” was in reference to your own comment, Jack. You’re clearly demented, or you’ve been in the pub far too long.

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  17. Well we know for sure that this list can’t be accurate. Michael Ronaldson missed the vote for the leadership ballot because he was traveling. How many other mistakes have you made?

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  18. Sent off a round of emails to Lib MPs last night and got one genuine response from NT member for Solomon Natasha Griggs:
    “I will continue to support Prime Minister Abbott.”
    Waiting now to see how many of the rest take time for a personal follow-up answer.

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    • The 2 blondes that sit behind the PM are Natarshia Griggs from the NT and Karen McNamara for Dobell. I just wish she had influenced Lucy Wicks my local member who TA helped gain her seat in a marginal seat.

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  21. Thanks for the list. It rather appears that all the MPs with talent supported Turnbull, and all the fogeys and reactionaries supported Abbott.

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  22. There’s really only one MP responsible for the downfall of Tony Abbott, and that’s Tony Abbott.

    It’s not dishonourable for MPs to vote for another leadership contender – it’s the way the system works! The leader serves only by the will of the party – one might argue that it’s a strength of the westminster system, that leaders can only serve so long as they have the support of their party.

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    • After the challenge that collapsed in February I heard that the emails sent to MPs ran about 9 to 1 in Abbott’s favour. Not much would have changed since then.
      Abbott could have led the party to defeat next year and had he done so his removal would have been accepted by the voters. Now we have two leftwits leading the major parties – smug Turnbull and sleazy Shorten.

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      • The members and Senators who voted for Turnbull have done a complete reversal on important issues, namely global warming and with the Paris agreement on the horizon there is a good chance that this turnabout will end up having enormous economic impact.

        Then there is the ridiculous situation where Turnbull has pledged continued support for Abbott’s policies, when he doesn’t believe in them. This will give the Labor opposition so much ammunition it will considerably weaken the Liberal’s position in the house. How can Turnbull seriously and honestly argue for these propositions when he doesn’t believe in them? Its farcical, and you can’t blame Labor for pointing that out, as they will again and again.

        I notice Turnbull using the word “vote” on SSM. Is he already planning to reneg on his promise to hold a plebiscite?

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  23. It doesn’t matter who is in now – what’s done is done , but please never put honourable in front of their names again, it just makes a mockery of the word…

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  25. WHERE’S THE EDIT BUTTON, RED!!!???

    From John O’Sullivan at the Fin Review (courtesy of Andrew Bolt http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/malcolm_in_the_middle_so_far/ ):

    “A good source tells me that telephone and internet messages into Canberra were running at well over the rate of 90 per cent for Abbott and against the parliamentary coup before and after the vote…”

    I think these 55 traitors have significantly and manifestly mis-read the mood of the Party membership, perhaps spending too much time listening to the Fairfax and TheirABC pundits and too little in their electorate offices! The timing for the launch of the Australian Liberty Alliance (http://www.australianlibertyalliance.org/) could not be better (especially since they have an international superstar like Geert Wilders making the keynote speech at the launch!).

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  27. Sussan Ley, the health minister who changed her name from Susan because of numerology. Not surprised she didn’t have the integrity to stay loyal

    Wyatt Roy needs to go back to kindergarten where he belongs. A good argument for banning anyone from standing in their 20s.

    John Alexander doesn’t deserve to represent John Howard’s old seat.

    Mal Brough and Arthur Sinodinos, two more MPs who were shown unreciprocated loyalty from Abbott. Scum

    Julie Bishop, who made it abundantly clear in February that she didn’t support Abbott, has in all likelihood been plotting with Turnbull ever since then. Happy that she was made uncomfortable in interviews yesterday

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    • It may be that within the Liberals those who voted for Turnbull are beginning to think they have committed a major mistake, and that those who voted for Abbot are likewise beginning to understand they may gain some future kudos.

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    • Um…seems Peter Dutton pulled his head in and changed his mind when offered the Employment and Women ministry’s lol!!!! Loyalty to Abbott??? Loyalty to Dutton. Full stop.

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  29. Stuart Robert from the Gold Coast speaking out of both sides of his treacherous mouth, snivelling and crying about why he stuck the knife into his mate’s back (without the support of said mate, would not have been elected in the first place):

    https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/29537973/politics-is-not-about-friendship-gold-coast-mp-reveals-why-he-knifed-his-mate-tony-abbott/

    The two questions neither asked nor answered in that article: (1) when did you first know the execution was on, and (2) did you tell your “close friend” the executioners were coming for him, as soon as you found out?

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  31. Good on em. They ought to be given medals for services to the nation. Hopefully this great nation won’t continue to be a laughing stock now that idiot of an ex-prime minister is gone.

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  33. Well Ken Wyatt’s office is keeping tight lipped about his vote. I would have thought that Ken, being as conservative as he is would have backed Tony? Can anyone explain how his name got here-because if Ken did vote for Mal, I’m curious as to why-because their values are so opposed.

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    • McNamara is my local member, and I’d be inclined to believe she would have voted for Abbott. Just got the feeling, mind you, nothing 100% other than knowledge of her character. On the other hand, she IS pretty chummy with Sinodinos as well. If we cross paths, I will ask.

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  41. So many lefty trolls… blinded by ideology and self hate, totally happy with a dirty political move (by trusted colleagues no less) on a Democratically Elected PM.

    Red, its time you tidied up around here 😉

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    • Abbott got rolled. Dirty politics? Yep, but what political power move isn’t. He took it like a man and somehow I don’t think he needs or wants people crying over it.

      “…self hate, totally happy…” Bit of an oxymoron.

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    • “Democratically elected PM?” No PM is democratically elected by the electorate Caleb. But if you meant democratically elected by their MP peers, then yes, you are right. Which gives those same peers the democratic right to unelect them (sack them) if they don’t cut the mustard. TA was a disaster so they sacked him. It’s really as simple as that. If you consider that disloyal, fine, but don’t mix it up and suggest an Oz PM is elected by the population. That’s called misrepresentation…and we’ve had enough of that by TA lately unfortunately.

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  42. Turnbull is acting like Mr nice guy , for now , but wait till he wins the next elections , the “true” Turnbull will show his colours and I don’t think the voters are going to like it . His pet aim is an ETS and no doubt will bring it in his next term .

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  44. I have never read such a bizarre collection of paranoid posts in my life
    The reality is that Abbott was not up to the job – promoted above his ability.
    Turnbull has the ability and intellect to be one of the greats.

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    • Just to update on this, I was told Luke voted for Abbott. Which is why I questioned your information. I have since had this confirmed. Luke voted for Abbot, so I have added his name to list of loyals.

      Just one more name needed.

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  46. Hunter above -“We will get more than an E.T.S. in Nov-Dec. Paris U.N. from the traitor.”Behind the left’s push to remove Tony Abbott – YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG0WcjGHkEw&list=LLX7mqzIJjk5XaikgqeeWFGg&index=3 ”

    Yes, amazing how prophetic that warning has become. I actually wrote an article using that very video clip back in Feb of this year.

    https://truebluenz.com/2015/02/10/un-climate-zealots-pushing-for-turnbull-to-replace-abbott/

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  47. Good news,Abbott is gone and thank God for that,next step chuck Turnbull and Co out at next election and install a progressive Government as this mob is sending the country broke.”

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  48. Just a tip to get rid of those red squiggly lines in an MS Word document. Do a spell/grammar check when you’ve finished. (F7), then just IGNORE every error. Red lines (& green) will disappear, then you can save it again.

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  51. I’ve had another reply, this one from Craig Kelly.

    Firstly sorry for the delay reply, as I’ve had thousands of emails in support of Tony and just have not had a chance to reply to all.
    I understand how you feel, as I openly supported Tony.
    As soon as the challenge was announced, I hit the airwaves in Sydney and Melbourne and also in social media calling for support for Tony. I walked into the party room with him, and I walked out with him as well.
    After the loss I felt gutted, and amongst the thousands of emails in support of Tony one said she was in mourning – and that best explained my feelings last week.
    Nevertheless, I have to remain focussed on ensuring that union puppet Bill Shorten never gets the power to run our great country – but in doing so, I’ll be also ensuring that our party doesn’t weaken on the strong stances that need to be taken.
    Thanks again for your support for Tony.
    Regards,
    Craig Kelly
    Federal Member for Hughes

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    • Thanks for response.

      I’ve got to say in the short space of time that has gone by since Turnbull took the leadership, he looks to me to be absolutely hopeless. An empty waffler.

      I think the Liberals have made the mistake of the century and they better start thinking about how they’re going to fix it.

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      • The MSM are making noises as if Turnbull is fresh out of the pack. He’s had a run before, as this comment from Tim Blair’s blog pointed out.
        “Turnbull sounded impressive on TV today. He also sounded impressive when he was John Howard’s environment minister and talked his boss into following Rudd on an ETS. It was the end for Howard because he was now a follower, not a leader.
        “Turnbull sounded impressive when he replaced the unimpressive Brendan Nelson as opposition leader. Tokenism and blunders and the Libs were heading for electoral doom.
        “Turnbull sounded impressive as he fronted the mikes as the communications minister. Two years later the NBN is in more trouble than ever and the ABC is totally out of control.
        “Sounding impressive is Turnbull’s forte. Already we hear his first act will be to dump knights and dames and that Marise Payne is the “first woman defence minister”. It’s the same shallow token politics that marred his first three political roles and is likely to end the same way.”

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  52. I disagree with this. Angus Taylor is my representative. When I wrote to him to lodge my objection he told me if I can’t support Turnbull I should vote Labor. In other words he couldn’t care less (it’s a safe seat of course). Nah, he voted for Turnbull and I will never forgive him for it. (he is also a known climate change alarmist even though he campaigns against wind turbines).

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  53. You might like to investigate why the link to this site isn’t working from Andrew Bolt’s blog. Well it didn’t work for me anyway.

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  54. I don’t see Ewan Jones, member for Herbert, in neither list. I suspect he was a rat but cannot confirmyhis.

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