Peter Dutton calls for second leadership spill amid chaos in Canberra – politics live
"Australian conservatives looking to lurch to the right."
--- Tony Abbott driven by sheer revenge one Liberal/National coalition colleague says.
-- After coming second in the 2007 leadership election, Turnbull won the leadership of the Liberal Party in September 2008 and became Leader of the Opposition. However, his support of the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme proposed by the Rudd Government in December 2009 led to a leadership challenge by Tony Abbott, who defeated Turnbull by a single vote. Though initially planning to leave politics after this, Turnbull chose to stay and was later appointed Minister for Communications in the Abbott Government following the 2013 federal election.
On 14 September 2015, citing consistently poor opinion polling for the government, Turnbull resigned from the Cabinet and challenged Abbott, reclaiming the leadership of the Liberal Party by ten votes. He was sworn in as Prime Minister of Australia the following day. At the 2016 federal election, Turnbull led the Coalition to victory by a single seat, the smallest majority since the 1961 federal election https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Turnbull --
Turnbull granted Dutton a party meeting yesterday, and survived a spill. Dutton has since phoned Turnbull asking for a second party meeting today. Turnbull refused to call one this time.
Can Turnbull hang on for 7 hours of this last sitting day? If so he can go into the two week parliamentary break still as Prime Minister. ---
Turnbull government chaos escalates amid more ministerial resignations and a formal request for a second spill
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Peter Dutton makes a brief statement to media in Parliament House Canberra this morning. Thursday 23 August 2018. Photograph: Mike Bowers for the Guardian
Christopher Knaus @knausc
Wed 22 Aug 2018 19.00 EDT First published on Wed 22 Aug 2018 18.01 EDT
Dutton claims to have enough signatures on a letter/petition he isn't willing to produce yet. Is he lying or not.
Abbott and Dutton are the foremost bully boys in this leadership stoush.
My feeling is that if Dutton gains leadership, now or later, the coalition will lose the next election by a greater margin than they would with Turnbull as leader.
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