Tony Abbott has tonight been ousted as Prime Minister of Australia, after being challenged for leadership of his party by fellow cabinet minister Malcolm Turnbull. As a result of their party vote, Malcolm Turnbull will become Australia's new prime minister, and will likely be sworn in tomorrow or the next few days.
http://www.news.com.au/finance/work/mal ... 7527262266
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Abbott and his party have been suffering badly in the polls for more than a year now, so I can understand his party's apprehension with his leadership. Personally though ... as much as I couldn't stand Abbott as PM, this is the third time in 5–6 years that a sitting PM has been ousted by his/her own party, instead of by the public. It's also the fourth PM we've had in just over two years. This irritates me a lot about Australian politics right now.
That said, we'll see what kind of PM that Turnbull makes. Hopefully a more effective one than Abbott.
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It is easy to go down into Hell;
Night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide;
But to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air –
There's the rub, the task.
– Virgil, The Aeneid (Book VI)
14 Sep 2015, 7:44 am
