By Rich Bowden: Recently deposed Liberal leader Malcolm Turnbull has launched an extraordinary attack on his colleagues calling the opinion of Tony Abbott, the man who replaced him as leader, “bullshit” on the subject of an emissions trading scheme. Mr Turnbull was rolled in a very public leadership spill last week after Mr Abbott...
By Rich Bowden: The leadership crisis of Australia’s Liberal party, which has pitted moderates against conservatives over whether or not to agree to the Government’s contentious Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) legislation amendments, took another turn yesterday as so-called unity candidate Joe Hockey met with fellow frontbencher Peter Dutton at his Sydney home. The two...
By Simon Hukin The ire raised by Mr Turnbull’s recent decisions regarding the CPRS legislation has brought about some of the most bizarre scenes in Australia’s political history. Following his unilateral announcement late on Wednesday that he was the leader, and the party was largely in support of the passage of the amended emissions...
By Rich Bowden: Five Liberal frontbenchers have resigned over its leadership’s decision to ram through an agreement with the Government on an emissions trading scheme. Tony Abbott, Sophie Mirabella, Tony Smith and Senators Nick Minchin and Eric Abetz have handed in their resignations saying they cannot agree with their leader Malcolm Turnbull’s decision to...
