Posted on 09/14/2015 8:31:12 PM PDT by naturalman1975
Watching the ceremony now.
Australia had a good thing going ... now this!
“I, Malcolm Bligh Turnbull, do swear that I will well and truly serve the Australian people in the office of Prime Minister and that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second, Queen of Australia. So help me God!”
I’m predicting a disaster of a government. Abbott offered moderate economic activity and stability. That’s more important right now, with a worldwide slump of economic activity.
Bligh, by the way is traditionally used as a middle name in the Turnbull family - ever since John Turnbull gave it to his eldest son in honour of the recently deposed William Bligh, Governor of New South Wales (the second mutiny he had famously faced - the Rum Rebellion of 1808).
By American standards, is this guy liberal, moderate or conservative?
He’s a centrist, tending slightly right. It’s better than having Labor in office, but we’ve lost a genuine conservative in Tony Abbott and replaced him with somebody who is more popular with the swinging voters in the middle.
TY, helps me understand the politics involved.
I will be voting labor in the next election and then liberal in the following if the leader is a conservative. There is nothing more damaging than having a leftist as the leader of a conservative party. Allowing them to win only moves politics to the left.
It’s a tragedy considering the force in which the electorate rebuffed the left at the last election. Abbott was our most conservative PM in years and finally we won again by running a conservative but now without a single vote cast by Australian voters we have a leftist PM who is barely any different from the opposition.
Now Turnbull will be holding the Wheel as exports to China crash, dragging down the Australian economy.
my condolences to y’all.
Good point. Hopefully this wasn’t a betrayal of conservatives but long term thinking. I still believe Abbott would have won if given the chance though. He was focused on running the nation, not dealing with mutiny within his own party or campaigning for re-election.
A lot would have changed when he refocused to campaigning for re-election and that’s if media polls can even be believed. Look at how wrong they were about the UK election, the media is not to be trusted and they certainly shouldn’t be influencing the selection our leaders this much.
I miss John Howard.
I think Abbott should challenge Turnbull to a duel, in whatever legal way, boxing ring, cage fighting, arm wrestling. I used to have a pretty good opinion of Turnbull, until today. Same with Julie Bishop.
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