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Australia Has A New Prime Minister: Ex-Goldman Partner Turnbull Overthrows Tony Abbott
Former Cabinet Minister Malcolm Turnbull is set to become Australia’s sixth prime minister in just eight years after beating Tony Abbott in a Liberal Party ballot on Monday.
The vote caps a tumultuous stretch for Australian politics which has a seen a series of politcal coups and counter-coups dating back to 2007. Here’s Reuters:
Australia is facing the prospect of its fifth leader in eight years after Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Monday was challenged by his popular communications minister after months of speculation and poor showings in opinion polls.
Malcolm Turnbull, a multi-millionaire former tech entrepreneur, said he would seek the leadership of the ruling Liberal Party after being urged "by many people over a long period of time" to run amid criticism of Abbott's performance.
"Ultimately, the prime minister has not been capable of providing the economic leadership our nation needs," Turnbull told reporters at parliament house in Canberra.
"We need a different style of leadership."
Kevin Rudd, elected with a strong mandate in 2007, was deposed by his deputy, Julia Gillard, in 2010 amid the same sort of poll numbers that Abbott is now facing. Gillard was in turn deposed by Rudd ahead of elections won by Abbott in 2013.
"If Abbott were overthrown, he will be the shortest reigning first-term prime minister to be overthrown," Rod Tiffen, an emeritus professor of political science at the University of Sydney, told Reuters.
"It's pretty amazing to think that we will have had two prime ministers overthrown in their first terms, which hasn't happened since World War Two. This shows the degree of instability within parties that we now have."
And here’s BBC with what you need to know about Turnbull:
Who is Malcolm Turnbull?
- Served as Minister for Communications under Mr Abbott, before resigning to launch a leadership challenge
- Many in his party dislike his support for climate change action and gay marriage
- Led the Liberal Party in opposition from 2008-2009 - but lost a leadership challenge to Mr Abbott by one vote
- Previously worked as a successful lawyer and businessman - defending former British spy Peter Wright in the "Spycatcher" case in the 1980s
The punchline: Turnbull was Chairman of Goldman Sachs Australia from 1997-2001.
The other punchline, from Bloomberg ca. 2014, is that Turnbull's son was executive director of SSG at Goldman:
Alex Turnbull, a former executive director of Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s special situations group, is planning a Singapore-based hedge fund, said people with knowledge of the matter.
Turnbull, son of Australian Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull, will be the chief investment officer of Keshik Capital Pte, said the people who asked not to be identified as the information is private. The fund, which will be focused on Asia with the flexibility to invest globally, may start as early as January and will invest in equity and credit, including convertible bonds, they added.
Keshik is at least the third hedge-fund startup tapping Asian opportunities in recent years involving a former member of the Goldman Sachs unit that invests in distressed debt and companies with its own capital. The Special Situations Group, known as SSG, is part of Goldman Sachs’s investing and lending operation, which generated $4.3 billion of pretax earnings last year, the most of the New York-based bank’s four business segments.
His reward: starting "his" own hedge fund, Keshik Capital, at the ripe old age of about 31, not even a decade out of college.
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Goldman rides again!
and managing director of Goldman Sachs Australia (1997–2001) and a partner with Goldman Sachs and Co (1998–2001)
Turnbullish? BTFD? ;-)
Looney
The only anomaly of Prime Ministers in this country is Julia Gillard, and she only won the job because she was a crooked lawyer for the trade unionists who compromise the Labor Party, and could take them all down with her.
Australia: More British than England.
If Goldman Partner, then for life. No "Ex-".
We are ruled, there are no republics or democracies any more.
"Turnbull's a good man."
-Michael Corleone
Ex-Goldman is like Ex-CIA - or - Goldman is to the Five Eyes as Hyman Roth is to Cuba.
Oy!
See to it, Malcolm, that all policies remain in place as they are, would be a tragedy if something happens to that young hedge fund manager, just sayin'.
Pretty stunning how they're not even bothering to hide it anymore. In the past they worked through puppets.
Goldman just made it official is all.
He has a smile a grandmother could love.
Which guy at Goldman was it told Matt Tiabbi way back when; "We own the world.", which alongside another comment by the guy in London that they were "Doing God's work" set them up as the devil's agents in the spotlight as the poster children for financial crime? In any case, would have been much better for them (and any other firm) to employ a strategy of classy anonymity than crass penis envy boastfulness and arrogance.
Lord Blankfiend will one day be looked upon as the chap upon whose watch the arrogance and sociopathy was head-lighted to the public.
Amazing .....
ask not what your bank can do for you, ask what you can do for your bank.........
ugh, I need a shower just reading this comment.
I agree with you as always, yet I'm not sure their arrogance is going to cost them that much. Most people I know don't know who or what Goldman Sachs is. Take a step back and observe the sheer number of uneducated or uninterested people, it's quite a lot of them. As they forgot how to gather information (or never learned) they now rely on mainstream media to cover anything important to them. Of course they are quickly and easily misled into believing the "us vs them" propaganda line.
Yes, after 2008 some might entertain the thought that the bankers are indeed working to enrich themselves, still they keep putting their money in the bank, and what else are they supposed to do, start a revolution? Don't be ridiculous. The black community might be the last citizens with some fire inside them, probably because they had to put up with this shitty standard of living for way longer than most white couch potatoes. Still they are going to be put down like dogs by the militarized mercenaries we call police.
Who is going to fight them? Who is John Galt?
I thought it was Blankfein who made the "God's work" statement?
Front running the Australian banking sector requiring a bailout in the very near future ?
They took away their guns and put Goldman Sachs in charge. Get ready for the concentration camps.
it was inevitable, Abbott's IQ lower than my shoe size.
Abbott is a Rhodes Scholar, with honours.
His connection to London is stronger than Turnbull's. But perhaps his morality made him too unpredictable for what comes next.
There is a famous quote from the Red Shield family, and it could perhaps even be their motto: "Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes its laws." Perhaps we should all be asking ourselves why the banks are suddenly interested in making sure that they have full control over who is making the laws.
''I see zero ability for the current Bretton woods global trade system to continue to operate and any replacement system will require a similar transitional type period as the 1933-1945 Bankruptcy reorganization.
But since this inflationary phase ran 7 times longer...the magnitude of the...
MASS LIQUIDATION OF ALL YOU MINDLESS MORONS
Is going to be far greater.
The city of London financed the Japanese war machine to liquidate their China operation and then used its USA operation to liquidate the Japanese operation.''
http://hypertiger.blogspot.com/2009/10/not-since-1930s.html?showComment=...
I moved to Australia from the US after Bush was appointed the second time and I can say that this is a far superior system. If you have a complete idiot like in this case you can throw him out midstream, this idiot lasted less than 2 years. People vote for the party and the party chooses the leader which keeps things a but more focused on policies not people. Voting is *mandatory* by law which means politics moves more to the center. Every day they have Question Time for 2 hours broadcast live, it's really rowdy and you get to hear actual arguments for policy, not just 5 second Obama or Boehner soundbites after they emerge from smoke-filled rooms. And third parties have a chance to affect policy. It's not perfect but what an improvement after the opaque crony fascism of the US.
i moved to oz just this year, and while im encouraged by your comments, am still quite skeptical that anything is really that different, basically its just a traditional vassal state of the empire. what i think (hope) may ultimately be in our interests are that we're just so damn far away from empire-central-command, and the culture of people is generally more common-sense. time will tell i suppose.
I was no fan of Abbott.
But he won an election. What does that mean anymore?
As an Australian, I can tell you that the majority of Australian's are rather mystified at Tony Abbott being a Rhodes Scholar (with honours) as he is widely regarded as simply being a "Fucking Idiot".
This clip of former Prime Minister Paul Keating neatly sums up Tony Abbott and what Abbott was all about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0_BSI6GrZw
Kina, I think you're making the usual mistake of many in this Media Age: mis-reading someone's poor speaking style as a sign of low intelligence. Tony Abbott is a Rhodes Scholar, with 3 degrees from two universities, including Oxford. How many university degrees you got, Kina?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Abbott#Education
Same as Clinton,'cept ol' Slick Willie had a hella good speaking style.
I have a PhD, Abbott has none.
As it turns out, attempting to "shirtfront" Putin is not good for your health! Next to go, The Right Honourable Stephen Harper of Canada, possibly as soon as next month...
It is a white Obama.
He could be half black.....but we have no knowledge of that yet.
High yellow?
I don't know much about Australian politics, but it sure sounds like it. But Obama never worked for The Squid. Well, he does now, of course.
Well I saw his climate change stance and butt pirate love and immediately said this is a white obama. In world politics you either work with the squid directly or indirectly. Anybody who does not bow to goldman and is elected has a massive heart attack.
Here comes another carbon tax.
Why don't they just streamline it...and tax the air?
I would have made a pretty good marxist.
Please stop giving them more bad ideas, Vince. They have plenty of their own already.
"Please stop giving them more bad ideas, Vince. They have plenty of their own already."
NoDebt, I take it that you don' think turing the world into one Giant Venzuela/Argentina system would be a good idea? :)
Seems like thinks are going that way. in the US, we have Benie (a communist) as a frontrunning for 2016. England has Chevez 2.0 aka " Jeremy Corbyn". I thinks it might me time to stock up on popcorn before these nut jobs win an the store shelves go bare.
That would be a consumption tax. You forgot the recycling fee for exhaling.
I wish the United States people could (non-violently) throw out politicians in their first term.
... buyt even the throwing out of politicians is done within the system by system sychophants. There is no real change and advancement through that route.
You had your chance and my generation is to busy making tech for the millennials getting paid. Sorry sir, it will take divine intervention for change and if you don't believe in the divine then hope we get some big asteroid or solar flare to even the odds.
Economic turmoil leading to political turmoil. It's happening everywhere is this world. How long will Dilma Rousseff survive? How long will Erdogan survive? How long will Malaysia’s Najib Razak survive?
WORLD TURMOILING. TM
Why not ask Robert Mugabe?
Free shits party.
Yes, defended Peter Wright in the Spycatcher case but not a word on Julian Assange. There was money in Wright, there is none in Assange.
Keep it in the family.
totally innocent facts :P
Setting the stage for the forthcoming global climate scam
Speaking of which.....isn't the 500 days about up now?
I think if you drill far enough into a Global Warming supporter you'll eventually arrive at a core belief in "depopulation". Just my .02
I'm up for that....as long as I get to decide who gets to be depopulated.
I'm assuming those guys are going to volunteer to go first
No thanks, I drilled into one Hair Head and that was enough for me.
pods
ex GS bankster, a lawyer on top what the diebold voting in auzi land has done. tech multi millionaire, you mean a fucking reptile insider who got the invisible hand of GS to win his wealth the old fashioned way- by crime.
And they're is 1 step closer to their plans for world domination.
Congrats OZ. You're totally fucked. Now you know exactly who to hang from a lamp post.
Don't blame me.
I voted for Bongo Staybear.
Beats voting for a killer Dingo.
only Crocodile Dundee is as Aussi as an aborigine.
I remember a movie with a young Helen Mirren as naked cutie, posing for local painter, James Mason, called : Age of consent.
With Turnbull we go to age of disconsent
Turnbull? Is that a Jewish name?
==
Israel is a British creation. The Balfor Declaration.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-07/bed-despotic-house-saud#comment...
the british empire was run by jews, just like this american empire is......the jews are responsible for all genocides..........
It was a couple of Australians who really got the whole, "the Ashkenazis need to be returned to Judah, despite having no genetic connection to that land what-so-ever" campaign up and running.
Australia: More British than England.
Yes he has a Jewish mum.
http://www.jewishnews.net.au/menachem-mendel-turnbull/32186
Does this mean Abbott will go back to his day job of giving U.S. Marines blowjobs and rimming Bibi Netynahu?
I wouldn't consider Turnbull a GS insider/plant, his ego is way bigger than GS.
Giant ego, rich, legal skills, skin way way thicker than an elephants, likeable personality with the public.... actually sounds kinda like Obama in a way. lol However his ideology can be center-center left on somethngs, and totally on the right on other things.
He is the archetypal narciscist, the very definition of the word is he.
There is a story... that when his girlfriend broke up with him, her cat one day appear dead on her door step..
Yeah.....that's pretty cold man.
Bah.
A serious person would nail it to her front door.
"I love cats ... I just can't eat a whole one by myself." - Malcolm
On exactly what issues does he fall on the right?
Economic plundering by Goldman will increase in Australia. Warmer looting begins, too.
So Goldman Sachs controls Autrailia now too....
un fucking believable.
You say that like it's something new. They've owned it all along.
Well those grounghogs still have one pitch left.
Nah. Macquarie Bank owns Australia, and large chunks of China, the EU, UK and the US too. Goldman Sachs is the public face of the international banksters - moving into total Western political Hegemony. But Goldman, by being so public, is going to be the bank the elites offer up to the masses.
Everyone who is living off their riches today, will find themselves strung up from the now dead electrical wires tomorrow.
The real banks will continue on accumulating wealth in the background like they always have.
Well what if the the QE controls Goldman? The QE? The Queen of England.
Israel is a British creation. The Balfor Declaration.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-07/bed-despotic-house-saud#comment...
That welfare queen doesn't control shit.
Turnbull was a lawyer for the uber rich.. then he got smart and ran across some insider information from his uber-rich freinds on an internet start up called OZEMAIL. he held that for a few years and it went IPO.. he made $100million on that deal.
Thats how he made his money, indeider information. HE knows nothing about the internet and its workings. he was a lawyer!
Last time i heard, insider information was a crime.
Only if you're poor.
Or named Martha.
A crime? LOL, yeah sure.
If you get caught!
For anyone who cares, this is an interesting take (and some great comments) on what Turnbull faces ahead.
http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2015/09/can-pm-turnbull-pop-the-bubble-in-dumb/
"Someone can make money as banker without nepotism but it takes a lifetime of hard work
What turnbull did was quite different – he climbed up and made his money early in his life thanks to friendships and family connections with ex premiers, prime ministers, attorney generals, and their family members (Wran, Whitlam, Hughes).
He wasn’t chosen by Goldman to run the Australian business because of his excellent business skills or work ethics but purely because of his connections.
He is epitome of the Great Subtle Australian Corruption – the one that rules everything in this country and doesn’t show up in Transparency International reports (because money never gets exchanged but favours do)"
This explains Turnbull's career in a nutshell.
Revolving door.
Bankers and politicians are the same, there is little to no difference at all.
the bank is the gov
Swapping a liberal for another liberal...
Yeah, that ought to work.
Hey Australia...want to buy some slightly used Syrians for your diversity smorgasbord? Good deal. Most with rudimentary electrical circuit knowledge. Some with hazardous materials experience.
Yeah, but here is what you don't know. In Oz, the Liberals are actually the Conservatives. Everything is backwards down there.
Southern hemisphere ... our winter is your summer. We circle the drain in the opposite direction too ;)
It will be too late for mankind when we finally discover whether it is Goldman controlling the world -- or whether the real power is just using Goldman to control the world.
It's always an Ex-Banker. When will people wake the fuck-up? Amazing...
Look at it this way, the election is 1 year away and the choice is this;
1. Liberal/Nat party sponsored by GS - 'nuff said.
2. Labor/Greenie moron party sponsored by gibbering idiots Inc., who will rapidly sell the entire population's future to power GS's global donkey cart via exponential deficit growth.
This is why I don't vote in a country where voting is mandatory.
Element, ever hear of a 'protest vote'? Political parties watch these carefully. Pauline Hanson was a protest vote which succeeded in getting the disenfranchised noticed.
Australian parliamentary system at the moment makes it dificult for nasty laws to get passed.
Even if Turnbull or somebody else is a pure GS man any laws they make have to get through the Senate, which is not controlled by either party, but has a number of genuine 'independents' who hold the balance of power. Abbott's govt has been usuccessful in getting a lot of shit laws through the Senate.
So in the Senate you will have Labor on one side opposing 'Liberal & National Pary' laws/bill made in the House of Representatives, with either side needing the Greens & independants Sentors to block/support bills.
Legislative schematics never stopped them before.
They will simply ignore the requirement that Laws be passed by legislature and implement them some other way.
In the US we realistically have ZERO public influence over regulation and laws. Most of it has been moved to Executive Departments who rule as they see fit.
And when people won't accept that, then the Executive issues an order.
And when too many people won't accept that...then they go to the Supreme Court for a Gee-Whiz ceremonial procedure to rubber stamp whatever it was that the few desired to do to the many.
The abuses have become so great and so commonplace that there clearly remains no legitimacy at all in government.
What a bunch of BULL _ _ _ _!!!!
(Couldn't resist!)
BULL _ _ _ _!!!!
I'd like to buy a vowel.
Just in time for the bank bail-in laws coming into effect in 2016. Good thing his resume says he has experience in derivatives. But he's also a magician - watch these deposits disappear right before your eyes!
Here we are in New South Wales
Shearing sheep as big as whales, with
Leather necks and jaggy tails
And hides as tough as rusty nails.
When shearing comes, lay down your drums
Step to the boards you brand-new chums
With the rattum-rattum-rub-a-dub-dub
We’ll send you back on the lime juice tub.
The brand new chums and cappy sons
Fancy they’re the greatest guns.
Fancy they can shear the wool
But the beggars can only tear and pull.
Though you live beyond your means
Your daughters wear no crinolines;
Nor are they bothered by boots or shoes
But live wild in the bush with the kangaroos.
Oh it’s home I’d like to be
Far from the bush and back country
Sixteen thousand miles I’ve come
To spend my life as a shearing bum.
fuck me
It's coming.
During the GFC in 2008/9 the Australian govt guaranteed peoples bank deposits upto $250,000. This deal has now expired.
Banks are required by law to increase their capital ratio and have doing some raising lately, though I note the Commonwealth Bank couldn't find enough interested to fill its $5bn (I think) need.
Australia has a 0% reserve requirement on bank-issued debt, and has since the mid 80s.
What. Zero is a percentage. Right?
His resume lacks focus.
Short on wisdom.
Blackmail the little shit and turn him into a bitch.
Goldman SucksAss needs to be machine gunned/carpet bombed, and ERADICATED FROM THE PLANET.
actually that's their plan for US
I believe Gillard fronted / was recruited by the right faction of the Labor party in order to stab the Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in the back since he refused to give the lunatic factions a say in govt. There is a Wikileak showing some lower level MP and Labor power broker telling the US embassy that they were going to get rid of Rudd, and this was 12 months before it happened.
So the rule is, it is not good to be an independent minded Prime Minister that looks to serve the country instead of Oligarchs, it gets you knifed pretty quick.
You are implying Kevin Rudd was independent minded? There are very strong rumours that he is bipolar. Even the leading mental health experts who knew Rudd said that it was not in Kevin's mental health interests to be the Prime Minister.
Labor = Liberals, part time US puppet, but not on all things. Until a knifing sets things straight again. lol
Liberals = wannabe neo-cons and US puppets
Abbott is a Rhodes Scholar.
He is pretty dumb ( I mean he cannot even string two sentences together when he speaks, and often contradicts himself in the Same sentence, a true art form.). He was 'given' a Rhodes Scholar status for turning up, he spent most of his time drinking and boxing. He also spent time in a Seminary until he left/was asked to leave, I believe he is Jesuit persuasion. Hence one of his nicknames is the Lying Friar.
Australians were obviously in a quandry,
some thought Abbott to be the lesser of two evils,
others thought Turnbull to be the lesser. Such a close call.
A kind of devil's paradox to be sure.
theres 2 kinds of money Goldman Sachs
.
and money
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I know Abbott pretty well, more than 20 years. He is academically hopeless.
He would be best described as a fool.
And yet,he was a Rhodes Scholar. What does that tell you?
That it's a scam and propaganda akin to the peace prize.
This is probably the best analysis and representation of Mr Abbott... and funny
Tony Abbott - Australia's Slowest Prime Minister?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLEx-cf6Jdw
Tech entrepreneur?
You mean stock market con-artist.
Headline:
Banker Shitbird To Lead Disarmed Nation, Liberals Cheer
A new reptilian to replace the previous one. Nothing changes.
Am I misunderstanding something? The son went from Associate to Associate director in 7 months? And then Executive Director 2 years later? Nepotism, much
Yes you are missing he has 500+ connections but only 1 person has recommended him.
The only good thing about Australian govt at teh moment is that it will hard for any side to fuck the country up any more than it is through law making since neither party has control of the Senate.
Any pack of humans who willingly elects someone from Goldman has certified themselves as terminally stupid and insane. Period.
People don't know what GS is or does. I had the misfortune of being trapped in a conversation this weekend and was informed the US bombed Iraq due to 9/11 and Libya and Syria are rightfully decimated because some protesters were killed. People still don't get it, still.
My God what does Goldman Sachs NOT have its tentacles into?
Is he watching porn?
Such important events as these inspire me to wax poetic sooo.....
Tony Abbot was no faggot,
Just a simple maggot.
Bye bye Tony,
And hello Malcolm of the Goldy Suckers,
Who shall Turn Bull to shit,
With the promise of more of it,
And of a brand new day, where all shall be happy and gay.
Despite the fact i'll get down voted due to his GS links and that never sits well on this site. Can I say as an Aussie - thank god we finally have a decent PM. Not since Howard have we had a good leader, and Turnbull is the perfect choice to see us through the upcoming financial shit-storm over the next 3 years.
He has done an amazing job in stopping the NBN trainwreck! Retaining Julie Bishop has deputy PM is great also, she is a great politician.
Hockey will go as treasurer, and hopefully this nation can stop spending beyond it's means, as our mining boom is over.
Seriously, on what evidence do you base this judgement?? Turnbull is no economic genius. Yes, he made a $100 million but that was mostly from -- ahem -- getting some very "hot" tips about the forthcoming float of an early Australian inetrnet company called "Ozemail". He is a lawyer. Yes, he's a very smart guy but, if Australia benefits any from his smarts it'll be because it coincidences with Turnbull's plans.
Honestly, have you been paying attention over the past 6-7 years? Every move Turnbull has made has been to further advance his own career, his own ego. As Communications Minister, he presided over the latest draconian measures to stifle internet piracy. This, no doubt, pleased the owners of big global media companies. They are now rewarding him for his diligent service.
--risKay
I can give you 100 million reasons for this judgement....oh wait you did that in your post. He placed himself around all the right connections, and then acted on the opportunities to make a fortune.....you wouldn't?????
"As Communications Minister, he presided over the latest draconian measures to stifle internet piracy" You do realise internet piracy is stealing??? Although I do not like the internet censorship that goes on in this country and agree that the anti-piracy laws will be largely ineffective I don't think you can blame a comms minister from making online IP theft harder.
As for the NBN, thank god he stopped FTTP before it cost the country 100 billion+ dollars, what a dumb fucking idea that was. FTTP in a country with such vast geographical and metropolitan spread was possibly the worst legislation in Australian history.
No offence mate but you're a slight delusional correct? Investing in the NBN was and still is the most important project for future proofing our tech/business/economic sectors till the last day this planet spins. To even be as stupid to think that the current over-budget NBN shitstorm Malcom has created is even logical in a technology driven world that will become more and more dependent on fast network speeds makes me wonder wtf are you doing at fight club.
"Turnbull is an honest, law-abiding and honorable bloke, just a regular dude like you and me." - Al Capone
Australia: Now within the Clutches of the Empire.....
Austrailia is now the second largest subsidiary of Goldman Sachs behind the UST.
is a turnbull anything like a turncoat?
Gods chosen bankers. <3
When are they going to elect an Aborigine .... like Obama the Nigger ?
That wouldn't be the same thing. Aborigines are from Australia. I don't think Barry is from USA ...
GS and the TPP, with a goldmanite in Aussi land.
Sounds like the strategy is on its tracks!
The kid changed jobs more than I change my underwear and he still landed an executive director level position at GS.
Nepotism is alive and well over there...
so no free elections there? just change of party leadership... sounds very commie
just change of party leadership..
We don't elect leaders. We elect representatives and administrators. We need to make that more clear to our representatives and administrators.
I say fuck this useless archaic British political broke ass system.
Let's bring back the" kangaroo court" !
GS or not, this change isn't really a tick for Turnbull but rather the fact that the LNP really needed to get rid of the now "previous" complete shit for brains Prime Minister. I'm actually amazed that this leadership spill did not happen within the first year of office as Abbott is so mentally retarded and flamboyantly bigoted that he makes Ray Comfort look like an intellectual. Someone previously here compared Tony Abbott to a "white" Obama. I think that is a remarkable comparison. By any gauge, Malcolm Turnbull could be compared to Obama. The best Abbott could hope for is a pale imitation of the very worst cringeworthy moments of Bushism without any humour, hilarity or dynastical connections to couch it in, all the while pissing off everybody in the process.
When Abbott became prime minister I said to people around me Australia just got their own Bush Jr. Same blank stare, Christian fanaticism, struggles to string more than a few words together, no matter what finds time to ride his bicycle and basically comes across as brain dead.
Not only that two of his lieutenants were strikingly similar to Rumsfield and Cheney.
Looks like the plan to move "Millenials" in and skip a generation is in full swing now.
Was looking around on Reddit and the general consensus of the mental giants there is that 'he's awesome because he believes in man made climate change.' They deserve everything that is going to happen to their economy.
Tony Abbotts only short coming is that he is an idiot and he is very good at it. Turnbulls onyl short coming is he is far to clever for his own good and he is not very good at it...
He is just another Gold In Sacks I mean Goldman Sachs wind bag full of economic claptrap about how market forces will fix everything. Those are the same market forces that got us into our current mess.
I'm off to NZ.
Dam was looking to get out of NYC and move to Australia.. I see Australia becoming like Greece now the under the dirty GS Squid. They will suck that beautiful country dry..
Turnbull is nothing but a polished Turd -a silver tonged self entitled A/hole !
We are only slightly less F%$#ed than the USA