General News Australian PM overthrown: Turnbull replaces Abbott

'Mon that equal marriage

 

I am so glad that he's gone, he was an absolute dickhead and did nothing productive except quote bible verses out of context and do the complete opposite of whatever he should do.
E.g. Carbon Tax, Climate Change, Marriage Equality, Refugees.
Hopefully Prime Minister Turnbull actually does the right thing.

 

My fellow Americans, study up on Abbott's tenure as Prime Minister and realize that a Donald Trump presidency would be 100 times more disastrous.

 

Wait - Abbott's gone? *cranks out the champagne even though I can't drink it cause meds*

 

This is terrible!

Australia may actually get something done.

 

Don't know much about foreign politics. However, I was on a cruise in July and sat next to 5 people from Melbourne. From what I understand, he's like the Donald Trump of Australia?

When you say 54 to 44, are you talking about percentages or does your parliament have the power to remove and replace your prime minister?

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*gasps for air* Can't breathe! Can breathe! I can't even think about him being president.

 

True but reports say he is going to tow the party line re marriage equality nonetheless.

 

Interesting. A private members bill that tried to get us back to more traditional Westminster style parliament was rather watered down would have included this kind of measure.

While parliament itself can bring down the government the MPs of each party cannot actually do anything to decide who leads the party. That is decided among the members. Or with the liberals however they feel like doing it that year. Giving the PMO here quite a lot of power considering all his other appointing powers here.

I was initially in favor of the proposal but the instability in Australia from it seems rather intense.

All that random anecdotal thought aside I'm rather happy that loonie is out of power. His voice on the world stage was most unhelpful.

 

I don't like to express joy at someone elses misery and defeat, but jee wiz I'm glad he's gone.

 

For people who aren't aware of how bad Tony Abbott actually was, here are some quotes and notes from his time in parliment.
"I think I can probably say [she] has a bit of sex appeal’
‘Climate change is absolute crap’
‘These people aren’t so much seeking asylum, they’re seeking permanent residency. If they were happy with temporary protection visas, then they might be able to argue better that they were asylum seekers'
'The problem with the Australian practice of abortion is that an objectively grave matter has been reduced to a question of the mother’s convenience.’
'What the housewives of Australia need to understand as they do the ironing is that if they get it done commercially it’s going to go up in price and their own power bills when they switch the iron on are going to go up, every year…’
Tony Abbott announced a Cabinet that includes just one woman. One woman. For context, the previous Labor Government had six women in Cabinet, the last time Australia had only one female in Cabinet was 2001, and countries like Egypt, Afghanistan, Uganda, Liberia and China have more.

Tony Abbott is/was the minister responsible for women’s policies. No really, the same Tony Abbott who said abortion is the ‘easy way out’ is/was the minister responsible for women’s policies.

 

Good riddance! Whenever people bitch about our prime minister I think "You haven't seen what they have to deal with across the ditch have you?"

 

He was a sexist, misogynistic, homophobic piece of shit. I loved seeing his wounded ego appear on TV when he was interviewed about something right after he was pushed off the PM throne.

 

So long, Dickhead!
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You go old dude! Teach him a lesson! :eusa_clap