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Tony Abbott has been replaced as Australian Prime Minister by Malcolm Turnbull - live
14th September 2015

Posted on 09/14/2015 4:48:06 AM PDT by naturalman1975

Just announced live on Australian TV.


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Breaking News; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abbott; australia; australiapm; climatechange; climatechangefraud; epa; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; goldmansachs; homosexualagenda; malcolmturnbull; popefrancis; romancatholicism; tonyabbott; turnbull
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To: Black Agnes
I think this will mean an open door for millions of ‘refugees’ coming Australia’s way. Which is likely the purpose.

Unlikely. I think Turnbull will stick with Abbott's policies on that. Even the Labor Party has come around to the fact that it's the only approach that works.

61 posted on 09/14/2015 1:52:01 PM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: naturalman1975

I’m seriously crossing every finger and toe here that you’re right.

That he was a partner at Goldman Sachs (read above thread for bbc link) is disconcerting and you should definitely be heard if he tries something really stupid...


62 posted on 09/14/2015 1:54:15 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Black Agnes

I regard the Goldman Sachs thing as a bit of a red herring really - it’s getting play in the US and UK press largely because of the fact that American and British know what Goldman Sachs is but are fairly unlikely to have heard of anything else that Turnbull has been involved in as the rest is very specifically Australian. What he is known for here, in terms of business, is mostly starting one of Australia’s first truly successful internet businesses. Besides that he was a lawyer who fought very hard on issues of freedom of speech (and I hope he will come back to that as Prime Minister, because some work needs to be done there), and he was once head of the Australian Republican Movement (which wants to replace Australia’s constitutional monarchy with a Republic). The Goldman Sachs thing was a very short period compared to everything else.


63 posted on 09/14/2015 2:02:42 PM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: naturalman1975

Sounds like the Margaret Thatcher / John Major fiasco.


64 posted on 09/14/2015 2:29:24 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (My music: http://hopalongginsberg.com/ | Facebook: Hopalong Ginsberg | Instagram: hopalonginsberg)
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To: naturalman1975

Tony Abbott is out because the Australian economy is doing poorly due to world commodity prices tumbling. All this is beyond Tony Abbott’s control and influence but he is Prime Minister so he gets the blame. Tony has irritated the lefties and the global warming nutters so the long knives were out.

Polls showed the Liberal Party was going to lose the next election with Tony Abbott at the head so in a pre-emptive strike he was replaced as party leader.


65 posted on 09/14/2015 2:38:04 PM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: Trumpinator
"Liberal is Latin for freedom as in Liberty."

Oh, so they speak Latin in Australia?
Who knew...

66 posted on 09/14/2015 2:51:32 PM PDT by Redbob (Keep your hands off my great-great-grandfather's flag)
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To: SeekAndFind

It seems that every politician that’s Catholic, isn’t.


67 posted on 09/14/2015 2:53:06 PM PDT by ecomcon
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To: Redbob

Ozzies are Latinos?


68 posted on 09/14/2015 3:17:47 PM PDT by Zuse (I am disrupted! I am offended! I am insulted! I am outraged!)
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To: naturalman1975

China to invade Australia in 3...2...1...


69 posted on 09/14/2015 3:38:57 PM PDT by MeganC (The Republic of The United States of America: 7/4/1776 to 6/26/2015 R.I.P.)
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To: naturalman1975

Thanks for your perspective, very interesting info. I will think of them as right center and left center, arrived at by by respecting the prevailing sentiment of their core voters. In a coalition government this would seem to me to qualify umm or classify the Nationals as a supporting conservative party and the Liberals as a supporting progressive party.


70 posted on 09/14/2015 3:42:27 PM PDT by citizen (America is-or wa5s-The Great Melting Pot. JEB won't even speak American in his own home. NO Bush!!)
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71 posted on 09/14/2015 4:09:42 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Democrats and GOP-e: a difference of degree, not philosophy)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Very disappointing imo.


72 posted on 09/14/2015 5:48:58 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (Fair Dinkum!)
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To: SkyDancer; Byron_the_Aussie; DieHard the Hunter

Ping.


73 posted on 09/14/2015 6:18:02 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Democrats and GOP-e: a difference of degree, not philosophy)
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To: Redbob
Oh, so they speak Latin in Australia? Who knew...

The name "Australia" is Latin in origin. From Australis, meaning southern.
74 posted on 09/14/2015 6:48:32 PM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: naturalman1975

Where do these guys stand on third-world immigration?


75 posted on 09/14/2015 6:50:54 PM PDT by I Hired Craig Livingstone (DT16. Deal with it.)
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To: I Hired Craig Livingstone

In simple terms, they both believe in severely restricting Australia’s immigration from such places - something that is not too hard to us to do given our sea borders in comparison to some other places.

But then again, even the left in Australia generally supports this.


76 posted on 09/14/2015 6:54:00 PM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: naturalman1975

You all are smart folks. You might be the last first world country standing with the way things are going.


77 posted on 09/14/2015 6:59:45 PM PDT by I Hired Craig Livingstone (DT16. Deal with it.)
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To: katana

I can see his upper lip.


78 posted on 09/14/2015 11:43:51 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: NetAddicted

Barely. And I’ve seen kinder eyes on a shark. Anyway, it was my dad and brother’s superstition. I’ve just noticed the same seeming coincidence enough times to no longer think they were necessarily crazy.


79 posted on 09/15/2015 4:18:05 AM PDT by katana (Just my opinions)
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To: naturalman1975

The front cover of the Daily Telegraph was just the full-page photo of Turnbull with the title something like, Smiling Assassin.


80 posted on 09/15/2015 4:37:54 AM PDT by OldNewYork
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