Tony Abbot elected leader of the Liberal Party

[Auzgurl]

about time.




BREAKING NEWS: Tony Abbott elected leader of the Liberal Party
Tuesday, 01 December 2009 08:58
James Thomson Tony Abbot has been elected leader of the Liberal Party after beating Malcolm Turnbull by one vote in a party-room vote.



Abbot, who has promised to delay the vote on the Government's emission trading scheme until next year, has agreed to have Julie Bishop as his deputy.

Turnbull won in two rounds. In the first round, Abbott won 35 votes, Turnbull won 26 votes and Joe Hockey was eliminated with 23 votes.
In the final vote, Abbot beat Turnbull 42 votes to 41.

The Liberal party room has also elected to again try to refer the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme to a Senate committee. If this is unsuccessful, the Liberals will vote against the Government's emissions trading scheme legislation in the Senate.

This could pave the way for a double dissolution election.

A disappointed Turnbull said he will not resign from Parliament, but will consider whether or not he will stand again at the next election.

Turnbull says he will not offer himself for a position on Abbott's new front bench and will serve his time out on the backbench.

Turnbull again hit out at the Liberal party's decision to vote against the ETS.

"I've always demonstrated that I have the courage of my convictions."

"A major political party must have a credible stance on climate change...that legislation in my view is worthy of my support."

"There's no question that the amendments we achieved would have saved tens of thousands of jobs. The rejection of the bill puts $200 billion of investment at risk."

[JW.Frogen]

Fuck me with a wallaby I did not see that comming.

I will never undestand the Australian mind, such as it is mindful.

[Monkey Magic]

abbot and bishop? catholic, but without tastes

[Rainbow Moonlight]

Very weird. I thought Abbot's speech after was good at the start but then wandered intothe usual trying to score political points rubbish.

[Aussie]

No matter what spin is offered, 41 Libs did not want this prick to be Leader.


Que sera sera!

[Rainbow Moonlight]

The take he gave was that the ETS was a big tax designed to take money out of people's pockets and fund big administration ideas.His take was that the Liberal party is not against a form of the ETS, but are against this one. He said they Liberal party wasn't a party of global warming deniers. He said peope should have time to examine the ETS and stressed how studies say it will add at least 30% to our bills.

The hit at Rudd via th eclaim of ideas that involve a lot of costly admin was just point scoring but the rest of the comment had some reason in it i thought. The rest of the political point scoring about Labor spendign money senselessly etc was just political point scoring in my view, and he twisted and showed only part of the picture to do it.

[JW.Frogen]

No matter what spin is offered, 41 Libs did not want this prick to be Leader.


Que sera sera!

Yes, but when Abbot won he held a secret ballot on the ETS and overwhelming won that vote, revealing Turnball never had the support of the party.

Joe (who I like) should have canvassed his own party on the issue. His free vote solution killed his chances.

The e-mails going into the Liberal Party are overwhelmingly against an ETS agreement with Labor.

As they will be if Labor ever passes one for Labor.

[boxy]

Don't forget the one who didn't vote for either of them (just writing "no" on his ballot). Wonder who that was, could have tied the vote.

Can't wait for the abortion issue to come up again... fluuush.

[JW.Frogen]

I think Dominos is skimping costs by using aborted fetesus on their "Meat Lovers" pizzas on two for Tuesday.

[Auzgurl]

Senate set to vote down climate deal
It would allow PM to call early poll
Two Liberal senators to support government
Time to go nuclear, says Abbott

THE Federal Government will make a third attempt to get approval for its emissions trading scheme when parliament resumes next year after the Coalition managed to block the its plan again this morning.

The senate eventually voted 41-33 to defeat the Government's climate change scheme despite two key Liberal moderates, Judith Troeth and Sue Boyce, crossing the Senate floor.

The crossbench, including the five Australian Greens, voted with other coalition senators.

Blocking the emissions trading scheme (ETS) - which would set a limit on carbon pollution, then allow companies to trade permits to pollute within that cap - has handed Kevin Rudd a trigger for an early election.


http://www.news.com.au/national/coaliti ... 5806001025

Christopher Pyne on Sky News last night said that we could go to an election as early as March 2nd ,and just when you thought Politics was getting comfortably predictable ?