He also only holds his seat on a 1.6% margin, and was only one vote (his own) away from being forced to resign in a vote of no confidence last week (for misleading Parliment over the handling of some immigration cases where he interveined to let in au pairs for friends/Liberal party donors who admitted that they were going to illegally work on tourist visas)...
The next Federal election can't come soon enough...
> The next Federal election can't come soon enough...
Where they'll be replaced by the Labor party who also support this.
But the PM is likely to be changed halfway through the term anyway (along with his/her ministers), so this really doesn't make much of a difference either way :-/
At least they've fixed that, replacing leader would be a month long affair and be voted on by every member of the party.
Given that the rate at which Australia changes prime minister, is ‘almost prime minister’ a compliment or an insult? There hasn’t been one that survived a term in over a decade.