A new era of political history has cemented itself in Canberra. The tactic of spilling, swapping and switching party leaders has become the norm on both side of politics, much to the ire of the Australian public. But before 2006, leadership challenges, particularly of the prime minister, were few and far between
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I swear Abbott and Turnbull have hated each other for over 30 years in politics.
Also the labor party criticize the liberals for not having a female leader but they went ahead and threw out the first female prime minister for a generic white man 😂
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Australian government is just a joke
Tony Abbott is to blame in the leadership problems since he stabbed Malcolm to become leader over the ETS that the Liberal and Labor just went to the election with .
LIBERAL PROMISED they would put it in in the 2007 election , then they lost so Tony decided to be different from Labor on Global Warming and the rest is history.
Every leader has lost their job over the same issue and Scott Morrison will be the next if he wins .
👶🏻Australia has NO anti-spanking laws.👶🏻 Just saw this on 20/20 with the comments disabled. the Myth of Motherhood was destroyed with watching Australian mothers remorselessly dole out the smacks. STOP doing what other countries have deemed harmful!!!!
Scott Morrison is PM now lol.
That statistic has won Australia the title of “coup capital of the Pacific” in some quarters. The new prime minister is the country’s fifth in as many years.
You didn't include the Peacock/Howard/Peacock fiasco.
Australian governments know what I best for Australia but dare not do it because the public would vote them out.
Blame the public for Australia’s plight.
This is a criminal operation.
The Australian liberal party, where morals and common sense go to die.
is it really a bloody history if they don't actually get stabbed 😕
Just to clarify the PM has pretty much no power in Australia. They just represent the party and meet with other heads of state and stuff. We don't even elect our PM the party does and anyone in their party at any time can challenge the PM. Also, contrary to popular belief the Government doesn't even have full control. Really they only have absolute power on a few things such as the budget. Everything else is done by Parliament. Meaning it is possible that one day The Greens, Labor and the Nationals all get 24% of the vote each and Liberal gets 28% and becomes government but with pretty much no political power. It's a pretty fare for the people system. The only problem is that if one party needs 1 seat to become government the fate of the nation could rely on the people in a random town in Queensland.
The 2008 turnball Abbott spill shouldn't have been included. They were in opposition. The guardians bias is showing again.
Voting should be optional. With over 30 changes in parliament and the senate since the last election, it's not like compulsory voting helps the people's will to be done anyway. If only there were a better way!
And now Peter Morrison won and has taken over from Malcolm Turnbull
Turnbull deserved it, he was trying to push the Liberals to the left. He could have simply joined Labour Party if he likes leftist policies so much. But no he has the lefties policies for commoners but wants to give tax breaks to the rich. Regardless of what side of the politics you are on, its good to have different opinions and governments. I think we should have left (Labour), right (Liberals) and also extreme left (Greens) and extreme right (Pauline Hanson, Bob Katter, Cory Bernardi etc). It encourages different opinions and difference in policy and government. Now we will paying Turbull pensions just because he was a rubbish PM.
PLOT TWIST
What a mess.
The ability to remove a Prime Minister from office without an election provides a major check on power. It ensures power is spread within out parliament. However it also causes our Prime Ministers to be more concerned about remaining in power then doing their duty to the public.
O. O. Bogan, Bishop is playing the long game. We'll see HER again you mark my words!
A lot of knifing missing here, most infamously, the drover's dog incident of Bob Hawke v Bill Haydon.
I am happy for Mr Rudd now!His current job is so much more meaningful and bring changes to the world!