Australians welcome ousting of Tony Abbott as PM, polls show

While new Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is expected to make several changes when he announces his new Cabinet on Monday, one of the biggest questions is who he will choose to appoint as his replacement as minister for communications.

“Maybe he has got something to offer and some good ideas, which is what is needed at the moment”, he told Sydney’s Daily Telegraph.

The motion was also opposed by Queensland National Party Womens’ president Theresa Craig, who described herself as a “scientist” and then proceeded to quote the Heartland Institute, the notorious USA think tank that is the leading voice against climate change, and funded by fossil fuel companies.

While he is not regarded as close to China as the Mandarin-speaking former Labor Party prime minister Kevin Rudd, Turnbull should at least be more aligned with Beijing than Abbott, who has a close rapport with Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe and once declared that Japan was Australia’s best friend in Asia. The public pays more attention when the ousted leader is also in charge of government, but under Australia’s constitutional system of government the prime minister gets no special treatment.

As the mining boom winds down and digital disruption continues to firm its grip across many industry sectors, Mr Turnbull seems to have appealed to an already captivated audience.

The party holds the seat by a comfortable margin, but opinion polls suggested it was facing a 10 per cent swing against it under Mr Abbott.

Self-identifying “lefties” admonish others on the progressive side of politics for making even slightly positive noises about Turnbull, for hoping that his government might be an improvement, pointing out – quite correctly – that in his first speech he nominated values including “freedom, the individual and the market” and that he hasn’t subscribed to a left view on industrial relations.

Handed the reins of an ambitious transformation programme by Turnbull, Shetler will now have support for his efforts from the very top of the country’s government – and a strong mandate to herd more than 100 federal agencies into a new era of customer service-focused operations.

Mr Andrews wants to stay, pointing to significant upcoming decisions including the release of the new Defence White Paper.

He said Mr. Turnbull was also more alert to the risks of climate change. Mr Abbott was criticised for including just one woman in his first 19-member Cabinet after winning the election in 2013.

Mr Abbott this week moved to the backbench and promised no recriminations against his successor Malcolm Turnbull after his defeat in the party room. The balance between MPs and party leaders has to be restored. “Recent polling indicated that 57 per cent of respondents favoured holding a national vote on replacing the British monarch with an Australian head of state by 2020”, Mayfield wrote.

However, Mr Cobb is backing a new, more comprehensive Coalition agreement with Mr Turnbull. In a report, it called on the government to urgently introduce a marriage equality bill in parliament, and demanded that all members be allowed to vote as their conscience determined, rather than along party lines.

“You could begin with a clear statement of intent that achieving full and final independence from Britain is a priority for your prime ministership”.

‘Every policy of any rational, constructive government is always under review, ‘ he said.