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It's official - Turnbull has just been elected PM by 54 votes to 44 and Julie Bishop is the deputy PM.

Tony Abbott breaks his first pre election promise. News Limited came to his defence by the national political editor of News Corporation’sSunday Telegraph, Samantha Maiden. At the annual Garma Indigenous culture festival organised by the Yothu Yindi Foundation, he announced a new Indigenous...

Slippery Pete is now being investigated for defrauding the Commonwealth of $900 in cab charges in 2010. Should Tony Abbott be investigated for possibly defrauding the Commonwealth of at least $6651 in 2009 whilst advertising his book Battlelines. From The Independent. Any comments on this. Do...

The hyperactive Tony Abbott seems to like making a statement of stunt a day. Why not catalogue them here. They are invariably stupid or wrong. To start:- By removing the Carbon Tax, power prices will instantly fall 10%. No, completely wrong.

Today, the Carbon Tax once again is lied about, and a pensioner's anguish is abused for political gain. A doubling of her power bill was obviously distressing. Her mind could have been set at ease when it was presented by her for inspection to her local member instead of exploiting her anguish...

This is Gillard talking with all guns blazing. Launches an attack on Abbott who looks very uncomfortable. Start at the 3 minute mark. ihd7ofrwQX0 This is spreading over the Internet big time. Lesson for the day. Do not attack members of your own party, even after they have done the dirty on...

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Ex-Liberal Prime Minister has slammed Tony Abbott's recent asylum seeker policy announcements as "inhumane" and "lacks integrity". He has also highlighted innaccuracies and inconsistencies in the policy itself. Here's my favourite: Read the article from The Age

Abbott's relentless negativity, aided and abetted by a friendly Murdoch and conservative media, is harming the average Australian, just so Abbott can get to be PM. I suppose he will now claim credit for lowering interest rates. :rolleyes:

The latest Neilson poll is in. http://www.smh.com.au/national/reshuffle-wont-help-pms-poor-polling-20111211-1opu1.html#ixzz1gFskuRrL 2PP 57:43 Abbott is preferred PM again after a very brief stint with Gillard in front. Primary vote up for the Coalition: 49%, up 4; Labor 29%, down 1; and the...

Since there has been an election announced for August 21, I figure we should have a proper thread for this, so here it is. For those who are interested the ABC has their 2010 election page up already. It hasn't been too long but already someone has attacked Jassmine Wood one of the Liberal...

On Monday June 21st, 2010, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and opposition leader Tony Abbott were involved in a live webcast called 'Make It Count'. This webcast was organised by the Australian Christian Lobby and was shown (for a fee) in churches right across Australia...

The Leader of the Opposition in Australia, Tony Abbott, has just completed the 3.8km swim, 180km bike ride and 42km marathon Ironman Triathlon. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/03/29/2858728.htm?section=justin While he's a sports fanatic, by his own account he trains only an hour or...

I know Australian politics is not huge here, and I would not normally start a thread about it, but the immediate consequence of this is that the Senate, where the Opposition and independents have the balance of power, will now vote down the carbon trading scheme. As a G20 country and 13th...