The 2015 Prime Minister shuffle

[DC3]

Malcolm Turnbull just now, in Question Time: "Ministerial arrangements will be reviewed and announced later in the week, or early next week".

 

[TheRealTMA]

Malcolm Turnbull will be a much better PM, I hope.

Won't be hard. TA was worst since Billy McMahon and I'd venture to suggest a lot worse.

Time we got back to a PM who didn't set out to break every single promise made before their elevation.

 

[Foreigner]

'Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realise that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.'

- Ronald Reagan

 

[RooFlyer]

Won't be hard. TA was worst since Billy McMahon and I'd venture to suggest a lot worse.

Time we got back to a PM who didn't set out to break every single promise made before their elevation.

"Axe the Mining Tax, get rid of the Carbon Tax and stop the boats."

Maybe not every single promise, then.

 

[DC3]

10:25pm local. Time to turn in. Will review any proffered ideas for past actual climate change, in the morning .....

2 hours later. You don't go to bed for very long, RooFlyer? Up again already.

 

[Warks]

So IF the LNP is re-elected any bets on Turnbull being the first Prime Minister since Howard to last a full term?

 

[SeatBackForward]

Abbott made no mention of Turnbull in his parting speech.

 

[badseed]

Like most around me here in the Socialist Republic of Melbourne I feel the need to celebrate the demise of a farcically incompetent PM. But Turnbull has sold out most of what he claims to believe in order to get that which he coveted most: power. He may still see off Shorten but with all of the policy albatrosses holding him back I don't expect he'll leave any form of legacy that the country will appreciate (i.e. Hawke, Keating or Howard) in decades to come. However, Abbott will now be one of those names that comes up in discussions of the 'worst PM ever', so even being an average hack would be an improvement I guess.

 

[footy99]

So IF the LNP is re-elected any bets on Turnbull being the first Prime Minister since Howard to last a full term?

Early signs are good I'd say. Just following the massive betting plunge on the LNP last night, I'd suggest the majority believe he will be a popular PM. There seemed to be a rather depressing sentiment among a large segment of voters that "I can't vote ALP, I can't vote Abbott and I can't vote for the even more extreme independents, so what the hell am I supposed to do?" that may have found their solution last night (thus the betting plunge on LNP). A lot now depends on how the deposed faction reacts and if Turnbull can follow through and be the more centric leader the majority can have confidence in.

 

[medhead]

pmsl

The irony and hypocrisy! Assuming he said this with a straight face.

Abbott reserved his most Shakespearean language for journalists slating their creation of "poll-drive panic" which he says fostered a "febrile media culture" that rewarded treachery. "Refuse to print self-serving claims that the person making them won't put his or her name to," he pleaded.
"Refuse to connive at dishonour by acting as the assassin's knife," he continued, blithely ignoring his own office's widely remarked partnership with certain docile media outlets.

He didn't seem to have a problem with it when he was seeking power at any cost. I guess the chickens are home to roost and the harvest has been reaped.

Liberal leadership: Tony Abbott gone but what now?

The vilification and betrayal of Tony Abbott is a national disgrace which shows how diseased and amoral the political process has become. A learned Rhodes Scholar tirelessly committee to his community and who unfailingly showed loyalty, compassion and respect to his colleagues has been treated in the most despicable way.

Thank God I cease being an Australian taxpayer this year.

Priceless. Tell me again about the respectful way he treated Gillard.

"Axe the Mining Tax, get rid of the Carbon Tax and stop the boats."

Maybe not every single promise, then.

Stop talking about the boats is not the same as actually stopping the boats. In fact, wasn't there a not stopped boat only a month or so ago?

 

[get me outta here]

This little test makes you wonder if there is anything original one can say in these circumstances. What's the best score?

Which new party leader said it: Turnbull, Abbott, Rudd or Gillard? - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

 

[esseeeayeenn]

No cuts to health.
No cuts to education.
No changes to pensions.
No cuts to the ABC or SBS.
A unity ticket on the "Gonski" reforms to education.
Fully funded NDIS.
Not a single Medicare Local to close.
Submarine fleet to be built in Adelaide.

All broken promises.

Stop the boats - by imprisoning the most vulnerable people in hell-holes where they are physically and sexually abused and doctors are banned from reporting it.
Axe the mining tax - and allow mineral resources we all own to be exported with little or no return to the government and hence to the people.
Axe the carbon tax - and replace it with a scheme whereby taxpayers subsidise the worst polluters, and which has already reversed the downward trend in carbon emmissions.

Some promises would have been better broken.

Then add the wilful destruction of local car manufacturing.
The choking of a vibrant emerging renewable energy industry.
The vindictive, inequitable and yet inept and profligate 2014 budget.
The proposal of $100,000 university degrees.
Making people who lost their jobs wait 6 months with no income before they could claim unemployment benefits, even if they were 30 years old and had no family support.
Massive cuts to funding of indigenous services while promising to close the gap.
Massive cuts to women's refuges while promising to stop domestic violence.
Cuts to superannuation benefits for the poorest Australians while refusing to crack down on super tax breaks for the wealthiest.
Making ordinary Australian consumers pay GST on online purchases less than $1000 while refusing to tackle profit-shifting by multinational companies.

No wonder Abbott lost 30 newspolls in a row.

 

[PLANT]

Not Abbott but liberal party.... They promised cheap and slow internet..... They delivered that and then appointed him PM

 

[Isochronous]

pmsl

The irony and hypocrisy! Assuming he said this with a straight face.



He didn't seem to have a problem with it when he was seeking power at any cost. I guess the chickens are home to roost and the harvest has been reaped.

When did Abbott ever leak against Howard, Nelson, or Turnbull?

Priceless. Tell me again about the respectful way he treated Gillard.

Abbott was unfailingly courteous to Gillard. It was appalling that Gillard abused parliamentary privilege to assert that Abbott was a misogynist. Provide some examples instead of repeating boring extreme left talking points.

Stop talking about the boats is not the same as actually stopping the boats. In fact, wasn't there a not stopped boat only a month or so ago?

So you don't accept that boat arrivals were lower under Abbott than under Rudd/Gillard?

 

[clazman]

Is Julia Bishop the next PM in waiting?

 

[esseeeayeenn]

Abbott was unfailingly courteous to Gillard. It was appalling that Gillard abused parliamentary privilege to assert that Abbott was a misogynist. Provide some examples instead of repeating boring extreme left talking points.

Hardly "unfailingly courteous".

I think this speaks for itself.
Ever heard of Barbara Ramjan?

Courage versus cowardice on the backbench.
Abbott didn't even front up to parliament today to do the job he's paid to do as the Member for Warringah.
And he sent his resignation as PM to the GG by fax ...

 

[DC3]

I can't say that I recall all this courtesy to Julia Gillard. Must have missed that.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Is Julia Bishop the next PM in waiting?

Sorry, fell off my chair laughing.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Abbott was unfailingly courteous to Gillard. It was appalling that Gillard abused parliamentary privilege to assert that Abbott was a misogynist. Provide some examples instead of repeating boring extreme left talking points.

LOL. Surely you can't even attempt to make this point with any semblance of seriousness. With any such comments you are are just trying to be an apologist of history.

 

[tomgoddardd]

Re: The totally off-topic thread

Turnbull the Millionaire ...