(Australia) Liberal Party leadership ballot

[marty998]

One more for the Aussies....

Turn my back for 1 minute and we have another leadership spill!

Turnbull FTW. Abbott getting his just desserts after all the shit he has thrown over the past 6 years.

*Breaks out the popcorn*

[HappierAtHome]

It's lose-lose for the libs - they'll lose if they keep Abbott, but if they switch they're as bad as the ALP.

That said, I much prefer Turnbull to Abbott.

[marty998]

You're not in the Canning electorate are you Happier?

[ozbeach]

at T-minus five minutes, my money is on Turnbull...

[HappierAtHome]

Nope! I'm in an inner-city, very ALP seat with the occasional hint of Green.

Please tell me I'm not the only one glued to ABC News 24? We should have a result before too much longer...

[HappierAtHome]

Shit, the BF says we might be in Michael Keenan's seat actually. Blergh.

[happy]

Ho ho ho, here we go again! I'd be exceptionally happy to never see those budgysmugglers again,  but at the same time, I'm worried that Turnbull does not really have enough support and we definitely don't need a re-run of the Rudd-Gillard debacle. 

On balance though I'm with Happier, I'm happier with Turnbull!

Not watching, going to bed soon, but if someone posts  the result here I'd be grateful

[HappierAtHome]

I checked: I'm in the Perth electorate still. So definitely left. Used to be Stephen Smith, now Alannah MacTiernan.

[marty998]

I like Alannah, she's a good one. So was Stephen Smith.

I'm switching over to my weekly dose of Media Watch (on ABC2).

How extraordinarily ironic it is.

5 years ago Abbott Bleating in Parliament "a first term PM assassinated in the dead of night blah blah blah crocodile tears"

[HappierAtHome]

No good Marty, they're delaying the broadcast.

[marty998]

East Coast remember... it's 9:20pm here. But the whole show (Media Watch) is about that 3 year old Syrian kid Aylan who drowned and how the media reported it.

I'm a little over it. Sure it's tragic and heart-wrenching, but the wall to wall reporting on it is turning into disaster porn.

[HappierAtHome]

I'm trying to limit my exposure to super depressing news, so that's good to know.

I totally forgot about time zones. Guilty as charged.

[marty998]

They've been locked away for 30 minutes now...to be a fly on the wall in the party room lol.

Tony Jones and the Q and A panel don't know what to do... they're just filling time until the result is declared.

Have to say the way John Hewson is talking right now, he would have made a great PM.

[HappierAtHome]

Turnbull won!

[marty998]

54 to 44...

wow

[happy]

Bigger margin than I thought, Turnbull has done his homework.  Hopefully thats enough to keep the troops in line.

[alsoknownasDean]

Abbott getting his just desserts after all the shit he has thrown over the past 6 years.

This.

Bigger margin than I thought, Turnbull has done his homework.  Hopefully thats enough to keep the troops in line.

Let's see. I'm sure some within the party won't be prepared to work with him (Hockey, for one). Will we see protest resignations like what happened after Rudd returned to the role? Will we see the Nats crack the sads (it seems so)?

It'll be interesting to see what happens now, whether the polls stay up. I read an article earlier that referred to a poll today which found most ALP voters polled preferred Turnbull to Shorten. That doesn't reflect well on Shorten.