Australia has a New PM : ScoMo

AUSTRALIA will have a new prime minister after Scott Morrison was elected leader of the Liberal Party.
Mr Morrison won the vote in the party room meeting 45 to 40 after days of tense meetings and panicked phone calls among party members as the country watched its government fall into disarray.
Mr Morrison will become Australia’s sixth prime minister in 11 years.
His deputy leader will be Environment and Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg who won the vote with an “overwhelming” vote.
A defeated Malcolm Turnbull stood down from the leadership following a vote of no confidence in his ability to lead the party to the next election after he called the long-awaited meeting to finalise the challenge for the top job that started on Tuesday.
Challenger Peter Dutton hoped he had the numbers to pull off the move he attempted to make earlier this week, gathering the 43 signatures he needed to force Mr Turnbull to call the meeting.
But those who signed the document sent their votes elsewhere in the secret ballot, with many who put their name to the paper understood to be supporters of Mr Turnbull’s.
Mr Morrison had pledged his support for Mr Turnbull all week.

The Opposition Leader noted that “politics is a brutal business” and described his rival as a man who used the word “love” in his public remarks more than anyone else.
Mr Shorten lost the 2016 election to the outgoing prime minister but paid tribute to Mr Turnbull on the day he was forced to leave the job.

“For Malcolm, for Lucy, for their family and for his personal staff, who are as loyal and as close as family, this is a very hard day indeed,” the Labor leader said in a statement today.
“For all our verbal conflict, for all the fierce words we’ve exchanged, I hope Malcolm knows that I have always respected him as a formidable opponent... as an advocate of great intellect and eloquence and as someone who came to parliament, relatively late in life, because he was driven by the desire to serve.
“Australian politics will always need people like that, on all sides.”
Mr Shorten said he would often speak at the same events as Mr Turnbull and noticed something small but significant.
“I don’t think any Australian prime minister has used the word ‘love’ more frequently in his public remarks,” he said.

“Anyone who listened to him speak could always hear his deep and profound love for his wife Lucy, for their children and grandchildren but also his abiding love for our country.”
Earlier, the Labor leader described the Liberal spill as the result of a “brutal campaign” to tear down Mr Turnbull and said the government would remain hopelessly divided.
Mr Shorten said there was a lack of leadership in Canberra as he accused the Liberal Party of not treating Mr Turnbull the way a prime minister deserved to be treated.

Full article
https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/the-race-is-on-bishop-to-run-turnbull-out-as-showdown-nears/news-story/5b48d2f4fa017cc30c93a301746f469d

eddie wrote:Is this good news for you guys? Are most Aussies happy with the result?

eddie wrote:Why don’t any of them finish their term? Seems a bit unfair.