Voters should not forget how the Liberal Party came to this. Tony Abbott was disliked by the electorate, the Senate was a mess, and the perceived solution to all of these problems was to replace Abbott with Malcolm Turnbull, the “great communicator”. Enjoying much more popularity than Abbott, he would save the party from the oblivion it…
Here’s what Malcolm Turnbull said after a caller to Alan Jones’s radio show said he found it hard to see him as a Liberal. “Everything I have done my whole life, and you have known me for most of life, Alan, is about enterprise, hard work, self-reliance, having a go. My life and the values…
Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull clearly does not know what is driving Donald’s Trump’s popularity in the US. Today he presumed to speak for all Australian voters when he so arrogantly deemed anti-multicultural campaigner Pauline Hanson as “not a welcome presence on the Australian political scene”. I would say he just lost a huge number of…
The Australian reports (paywalled) on an analysis of Newspolls over the past two months, and its not looking good for Liberal leader Turnbull. The Coalition has suffered a 6 per cent swing against it in two-party-preferred terms in Queensland, a 7.3 swing in Western Australia and 3.6 per cent deterioration in NSW. This is enough…
On my other blog, TrueblueNZ, I posted an article revealing the faces and names of those Liberal Party politicians who voted for Malcolm Turnbull in the leadership spill last year. I wrote the post because I was angered at the lack of accountability among the Liberals in deciding to keep the vote secret, thereby denying…
I did a post a few days after Tony Abbott’s betrayal in an attempt to identify those members of the Liberal Party who had voted for Malcolm Turnbull. The information was hard to come by as the party had reportedly arranged to keep the vote “secret”. If true, an example of arrogance in itself, in…
Readers please note- The information below is out of date as it is based on information available at the time it was posted.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…
News.com.au reports rumours of a new bid to oust Abbott. Less than three weeks after Prime Minister Tony Abbott survived a party room vote, leadership tensions at the top of the government have emerged yet again. The Seven Network and the ABC have reported that Malcolm Turnbull has been told he has the numbers to…
I followed a twitter link to this story thinking it was current. In fact its a Daily Telegraph item from August 2009. Which raises the obvious question, what is this guy doing still in the Australian Liberal Party? MALCOLM Turnbull wanted to become Kim Beazley’s shadow finance minister during the second term of the Howard…
I don’t read much about climate change these days as I consider its a done deal. No sensible government will ever yield to the trickery and fakery of the AGW zealots. Another decade and it will be history. But wait… Its a leftist thing, and as we all know like rust, the left never sleeps.…
Turnbull only lost the leadership to Abbott by one vote in 2009. I’m sorry to say its beginning to look like he’s got the numbers this time. The announcement by Arthur Sinodosis that he supports the spill could be the death knell for Abbott’s leadership. I think Abbott needs a better defence than “we do…
Tony Abbott said at a press conference this morning that the spill vote scheduled for Tuesday will now be held at 9am on Monday. I would guess this change is partly driven to avoid the embarrassment of Monday’s house session where Abbot would have been enthusiastically attacked by the opposition. Meanwhile Malcolm Turnbull has called…
Barnaby Joyce is deputy leader of the National Party. In a newspaper interview this afternoon he indicated that the National’s agreement with the Liberals would be endangered if Abbott is dumped. He said the coalition agreement was made between the Nationals and Tony Abbott. “What I say to my colleagues in the Liberal party is…
