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Feb 5, 2024 · Turnbull's ambush worked. He defeated Dutton 48 votes to 35. To many filing out of the party room, however, it was not a decisive victory but merely a stay of execution. "Malcolm Turnbull blew ...
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Aug 26, 2018 · The political floodgates opened and Malcolm Turnbull was washed away. Beyond Malcolm Turnbull's fate, the longer-term problem facing the Australian polity is its increasing bi-polar nature ...
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The Prime Minister opens the Liberal party room meeting by calling a leadership spill, surprising most of his colleagues. Mr Dutton challenges, but the PM narrowly wins 48 votes to 35. The challenger resigns from his Cabinet position as home affairs minister.
Frontbenchers and Dutton supporters Michael Sukkar, James McGrath, Angus Taylor, Zed Seselja, Michael Keenan, Steve Ciobo, Greg Hunt, Alan Tudge, Concetta Fierravanti-Wells offer to quit the ministry. The PM declines all resignations except Senator Fierravanti-Wells, whose highly critical resignation letter accuses the party of moving too far away ...
The PM insists the frontbenchers who offered to resign are back in his camp and maintains he has the support of most of his party room. Key conservative Mathias Cormann holds a press conference alongside the PM and publicly declares: "I support Malcolm Turnbull as Prime Minister." A series of Cabinet ministers and Dutton supporters are seen going i...
Senator Cormann visits the Prime Minister to tell him that five Cabinet ministers have switched support to the Dutton camp since Tuesday's meeting and advises him that "he no longer enjoyed the support of the majority of members in the Liberal Party party room". The Finance Minister offers to resign but is rebuffed. The Dutton camp starts circulati...
Mr Sukkar and Senator Seselja also formally resign and add their names to the petition. Mr Dutton tells the Prime Minister he has the numbers and wants to challenge him for the leadership again, but Mr Turnbull refuses the request to call a party room meeting. Senator Cormann goes to see the PM again to reiterate what he told him on Wednesday and a...
With the make-up of the Government in flux, Christopher Pyne moves a motion to adjourn Parliament early, which is upheld. An hour later, Mr Turnbull fronts the media and says he will only call a new party-room meeting once he sees a letter with signatures of a majority of the party room supporting Mr Dutton. He says that meeting will happen at midd...
With speculation swirling about who has the numbers, Queensland MP Warren Entsch says he will cast the crucial 43rd vote for a spill if it is required. As requested by the Attorney-General, Solicitor-General Stephen Donaghue releases his legal advice about Mr Dutton's eligibility to sit in Parliament, saying the former home affairs minister is "not...
In the party room, Liberal MPs vote 45-40 to spill the leadership positions. Ms Bishop, Mr Morrison and Mr Dutton all nominate for the top job, but Ms Bishop is knocked out in the first round of voting. Mr Morrison wins the second round 45-40 to become the party's leader and Australia's 30th prime minister. Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg wins an "...
Aug 23, 2018 · “Malcolm was doing fine,” said one Turnbull-supporting Liberal minister. “This is a palace coup, and it became very difficult to stop once you had the calibre of people like Mathias Cormann ...
As the principal victim of the events of August 24, Malcolm Turnbull was entitled to put his version on events. Everyone else has. As uncomfortable as Thursday's Q&A episode was for the Liberal ...
Aug 25, 2018 · The republic wasn’t half of it. Turnbull was a precocious type-A success story. The son of a hotel broker and a thespian/academic who separated when he was nine, Turnbull became the co-captain ...
Aug 24, 2018 · This is classic, back-to-the-wall Malcolm Turnbull. Looking for legal loopholes, looking for delaying tactics, and never giving in, writes Annabel Crabb. In the end, the party's break with him was ...
