Australia’s new prime minister fends off sell-out accusation

Malcolm Turnbull makes an address at Parliament after he was sworn in as prime minister in Canberra, Australia, Tuesday, September 15, 2015. His track record, in fact, is one of being far less consultative with colleagues than many have liked.

The Coalition is ecstatic it now has a leader who is popular.

That we hold on to our conviction that together we can create an Australia where political parties of all stripes support justice for the dispossessed, public-serving democracy and equality between all people.

Despite his change of position, Rodney Croome, national director of the Australian Marriage Equality lobby group, welcomed Turnbull replacing Abbott, a vocal gay marriage opponent. Turnbull has clearly restored the Coalition’s fortunes with the electorate.

Among those reportedly instrumental in Turnbull’s rise was Queensland Senator James McGrath, who in 2008 helped British Conservative Boris Johnson win his Mayor of London campaign. But a quick canvass of other Liberals over the past few days indicates at least a temperate level of concern across the party’s factions (which the Liberals don’t like to describe as factions, of course).

Mr Turnbull continues to settle into the PM job.

“If this turns out to be the case, there are a number of options we could explore to boost competition however before we do anything nbn – our preference would be to see the market respond”, Morrow said.

“Commentators can say what they want”, he said.

Turnbull labeled the trade agreement as “one of the most important foundations of our prosperity” and said he was to compelled to challenge Abbott for the leadership because it had become clear that the opposition Labor Party could oust the government at the next election – therefore putting ChAFTA at risk. Again, religious leaders only fare marginally better than political leaders.

Will he keep it together?

But consumers are also likely to enjoy the “Turnbull Effect”.

Turnbull said that, had China’s perseverance waned during the conflict, Japanese attacks on the Australian mainland could have extended to much more than a handful of bombing raids.

“And I am utterly satisfied that, on the steps taken to date, no other environment minister in Australia could have come to a different conclusion on the law or the science”. But more had been hoped of Turnbull, particularly after Abbott’s brutal anti-renewables rhetoric had chased away global investors. “He’d never had a discussion with me before about being his deputy”.

“Right now the priority must be to roll out the NBN as quickly as possible”. There will be pics of the new PM riding in their new vehicle . Dowdy was said to be in the cabinet anteroom when he approached the passing Prime Minister to dispatch the insult.

A Fairfax-Ipsos poll published on Monday, before the leadership change, showed voters in the Western Australian seat of Canning delivering a swing of up to 10 percent against the government in Saturday’s by-election. “An opportunity to celebrate the power of the NBN was missed”, she said. “And last night, many did”. He excels at explaining, seems to revel in it. (Tanya Plibersek’s accusation this week that he was “mansplaining” was used at the wrong time, but gets at a very real Turnbull weakness, not of sexism but of appearing smugly knowing.) Shorten will now have to match this.