We-ell! About bloody time – he’s gone. Gone, gone, gone! 😀
Now, we’ve had a few days to digest the news….
Let’s talk.
Turnbull has a hard slog ahead of him in many aspects, if he were to try and be genuine to the things he’s said previously. Based on the past few days, he isn’t bothered about that – he just wants to keep his hands on the top job.
Turnbull’s a much smoother salesman of the pitch. Whether it will be any different is the real question. Somehow, I doubt it. He’s just a bit too self-assured and smug for me to really trust him with any of that. He’s either a hypocrite or a opportunist – and perhaps both.
44 votes were against Turnbull in the ballot. That’s a good number of people who might be resistant to him in his own party because they have their own agendas. But to keep their jobs, they may well “put up and shut up” – at least for now.
The important thing is government policies – the person in charge only matters in terms of how much they agree with the message and how they sell it.
Now, it’s Labor and Shorten’s (as well as the Greens and others) turn. They have to step up to the mark and fight the policies as well as the people. They can’t just “win by default”. As a thinking person who cares about the state of things, I like that. Maybe we’ll finally see a real bit of easily-discernible difference between the Coalition and Labor?
We can only hope (please!).
If not? Well, we’ll just have to do their work for them. Again. And again – until they all get the message.
As Shorten said at the recent ALP National Conference: Bring. It. On.
___________________________________________________________________
REBLOGGED FROM THE AIMN: below is one of many articles from recent days about the spill and other government things which links to others and sums things up very well.
Abbott’s gone, so where to now?
Tony Abbott has been good for us in one respect and we can thank him for that. The AIMN and countless other sites have thrived on his collection of stupid leadership gaffes and atrocious policies.
Some of us may be feeling a sense of emptiness. Tony Abbott, after all, was our signature dish. It is unlikely we’ll ever have a more inept Prime Minister served up for us.
But our work is not yet done.
As John Kelly rightly reminds us, we may have a new Prime Minister but we still have a failed government. And we will carry on fighting this government.
And on the other side of the political divide Jennifer Wilson points out – what many have been silently thinking – that Bill Shorten might not be the best person to take on Malcolm Turnbull. And we will carry on agitating for a better opposition.
And are we happy with the new Prime Minister? Certainly not when he simply carries on with his predecessor’s ineffective policies. Take climate change, for example. Kaye Lee reminds us that:
So far, Malcolm Turnbull has said there will be no change to the Coalition’s climate change policy. He needs to rethink that.
Yes, he does. And we will be arguing the case why he does.
And elsewhere, Van Badham over at The Guardian warns us that Turnbull will still be ruling ‘from and for the big end of town’. Wasn’t Abbott also doing that? Wasn’t that what we were also fighting against? Looks like nothing changes for us in that regards.
Any emptiness we might have felt with the demise of Tony Abbott will quickly be filled while we are still faced with the horror legacies he left us.
So where to now? Answer: we keep heading in the same direction. We at The AIMN will be.
Check out this article for more explanation: https://theconversation.com/minus-abbotts-obsessions-imperious-new-pm-must-mend-fences-and-the-economy-47490
And if you want a cruder version of things, look here: https://truthseekersmusings.wordpress.com/2015/09/16/pig-lnp-meet-lipstick-turdball/
myzania 