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Party ousts Australian PM Abbott for more moderate rival
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By Rod McGuirk September 14 at 4:32 PM
CANBERRA, Australia — Australia’s ruling conservatives ousted beleaguered Prime Minister Tony Abbott as their party leader Monday in a change that could signal a different government response to climate change and allow for a more moderate agenda that could include recognition of gay marriage.
Liberal Party members voted 54 to 44 to replace Abbott with Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull, a former party head who had called for the leadership ballot just hours earlier amid flagging opinion polls for the two-year-old conservative coalition government.
Turnbull lost the party leadership in 2009 over his support for a proposal by the then-Labor Party government to make industrial polluters pay for their carbon gas emissions through an emissions permit trading scheme.
The coalition government under Abbott last year repealed a two-year-old carbon tax and replaced it with a policy of paying industrial polluters 2.55 billion Australian dollars ($1.8 billion) in taxpayer-funded incentives to operate more cleanly. The policy imposes no financial penalty for polluting, and critics say it will not reduce Australia’s heavy reliance on abundant reserves of cheap coal to generate electricity.
In his first news conference since being elected party leader, Turnbull foreshadowed no changes to climate policy.
“Policies are reviewed and adapted all the time,” he said. “But the climate policy is one that, I think, has been very well designed.”
Turnbull declined to discuss any other potential policy changes, emphasizing that his leadership style would be collaborative. Abbott was often accused of making rogue policy pronouncements.
Turnbull supports gay marriage and previously proposed that Parliament vote on legalizing it before elections that are due around next September.
Abbott, who opposes gay marriage, proposed avoiding divisive public debate by holding a post-election direct vote on the matter.
Turnbull will become Australia’s fourth prime minister in just over two years when he is sworn in Tuesday.
The change does not undermine the security of the government, which commands a clear majority in the House of Representatives, the chamber where parties form the government. Any no-confidence motion proposed by Labor against the new prime minister would be doomed to failure.
The Liberals were elected in 2013 as a stable alternative to the then-Labor government. Labor came to power under Kevin Rudd in 2007, only to dump him for his deputy, Julia Gillard, in 2010, months ahead of elections. The bitterly divided government then dumped Gillard for Rudd just months before the 2013 election.
Before Rudd was elected in 2007, John Howard was in power for almost 12 years.
The Abbott government had trailed the opposition in a range of opinion polls since April last year. Abbott survived a leadership challenge from within his party in February that was prompted by those polls and what some deemed his questionable judgments.
Turnbull, a 60-year-old former lawyer and merchant banker known for his moderate views, has long been considered Abbott’s chief rival.
Opinion polls show that Turnbull is more popular than Abbott, but many of those who prefer him vote for the center-left Labor Party.
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Party ousts Australian PM Abbott for more moderate rival
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By Rod McGuirk September 14 at 4:32 PM
CANBERRA, Australia — Australia’s ruling conservatives ousted beleaguered Prime Minister Tony Abbott as their party leader Monday in a change that could signal a different government response to climate change and allow for a more moderate agenda that could include recognition of gay marriage.
Liberal Party members voted 54 to 44 to replace Abbott with Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull, a former party head who had called for the leadership ballot just hours earlier amid flagging opinion polls for the two-year-old conservative coalition government.
Turnbull lost the party leadership in 2009 over his support for a proposal by the then-Labor Party government to make industrial polluters pay for their carbon gas emissions through an emissions permit trading scheme.
The coalition government under Abbott last year repealed a two-year-old carbon tax and replaced it with a policy of paying industrial polluters 2.55 billion Australian dollars ($1.8 billion) in taxpayer-funded incentives to operate more cleanly. The policy imposes no financial penalty for polluting, and critics say it will not reduce Australia’s heavy reliance on abundant reserves of cheap coal to generate electricity.
In his first news conference since being elected party leader, Turnbull foreshadowed no changes to climate policy.
“Policies are reviewed and adapted all the time,” he said. “But the climate policy is one that, I think, has been very well designed.”
Turnbull declined to discuss any other potential policy changes, emphasizing that his leadership style would be collaborative. Abbott was often accused of making rogue policy pronouncements.
Turnbull supports gay marriage and previously proposed that Parliament vote on legalizing it before elections that are due around next September.
Abbott, who opposes gay marriage, proposed avoiding divisive public debate by holding a post-election direct vote on the matter.
Turnbull will become Australia’s fourth prime minister in just over two years when he is sworn in Tuesday.
The change does not undermine the security of the government, which commands a clear majority in the House of Representatives, the chamber where parties form the government. Any no-confidence motion proposed by Labor against the new prime minister would be doomed to failure.
The Liberals were elected in 2013 as a stable alternative to the then-Labor government. Labor came to power under Kevin Rudd in 2007, only to dump him for his deputy, Julia Gillard, in 2010, months ahead of elections. The bitterly divided government then dumped Gillard for Rudd just months before the 2013 election.
Before Rudd was elected in 2007, John Howard was in power for almost 12 years.
The Abbott government had trailed the opposition in a range of opinion polls since April last year. Abbott survived a leadership challenge from within his party in February that was prompted by those polls and what some deemed his questionable judgments.
Turnbull, a 60-year-old former lawyer and merchant banker known for his moderate views, has long been considered Abbott’s chief rival.
Opinion polls show that Turnbull is more popular than Abbott, but many of those who prefer him vote for the center-left Labor Party.
