Furious Australians deliver their verdict on the Liberal party leadership coup

[Mighty AU]

The voters have screamed their anger about the Liberals' self-indulgent blood letting, in the first Newspoll after the coup. Labor's two-party lead over the Coalition has jumped to 56-44, a massive change from the 51-49 margin only a fortnight ago.

While Bill Shorten could never get his nose in front of Malcolm Turnbull as "better prime minister", the Opposition Leader holds a 39 to 33 per cent lead over new prime minister Scott Morrison.

Two weeks ago Mr Turnbull had a 12-point advantage as better PM. This is the first time since February 2015 that Shorten has led on this measure.

The Coalition's primary vote has plunged four points to 33 per cent; Labor's vote has increased from 35 per cent to 41 per cent, in The Australian's poll, which comes as Mr Morrison moved quickly to announce his ministerial team.

The new line-up sees the man who swung the wrecking ball to destroy a prime minister restored to Cabinet [Peter Dutton], while on the backbench, on her own choice (and within cooee of Tony Abbott, who didn't get the call to a ministry), will sit the Liberal woman [Julie Bishop; failed leadership contender] who is highly popular with the public.

Furious voters deliver their verdict as Scott Morrison's Governm..

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Also, Malcolm Turnbull has announced that he will be resigning from Parliament this week Malcolm Turnbull to resign from Parliament this week

[Col. Buggernuts]

Australian parliament seems like a pub brawl that never ends, only news I ever hear of it seems to be fights over leadership.

[Death-trooper]

when the Australian parliament is too Australian...

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Got stop the hard right voters deserting them to One Nation but shooting the rest of the party in the foot :downs:

[Mighty AU]

Yet another classic case of rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic; a proficiency of Australian politicians who are bound to be voted out at the next election

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I'm disappointed :downs: insn't an emote any more.

[Araknid]

its a fucken joke, I'm still amazed that the libs were voted in for another term

[Whomobile]

I'm just curious if we'll get another election before next year.

[megafat]

Prime Ministers change so often that memorizing their names isn't even worth it.

[Lonestriper]

Labor have made a federal ICAC a policy last I remember so I'm rock hard about these poll numbers

[-n3o-]

Not sure why the libs went ahead with another leadership change? Surely, they must know doing this, just increases their chances of losing the next federal election.

[Mighty AU]

Malcolm Turnbull actually served longer than the median term length - Prime Ministers such as Menzies and Johnny Howard are extreme outliers.

[StrawberryClock]

https://youtu.be/1WjyvFikJZc

[OfficerLamarr]

The Liberals were already most likely facing a loss next election. This leadership change is about how they want to look like in elections, centre or hard right. Unfortunately for us they seem to want to appeal to the later.