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| Scott Morrison wins Liberal party leadership with Frydenberg to be deputy – politics live | |
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| Scott Morrison has just walked back into the | |
| He says he is “off to see the Nationals”. They’ll be pleased this is all over, no doubt. | |
| “Off to see the Nationals,” new Liberal leader Scott Morrison says as he arrives back at the ministerial wing with his new deputy Josh Frydenberg #libspill pic.twitter.com/HpodGvuu3n | |
| Some vision of Scott Morrison, our new prime minister, leaving the party room. | |
| Happy Friday #auspol pic.twitter.com/5MASXZoNJc | |
| The independent MP Rebekha Sharkie – who had threatened to withdraw supply if Peter Dutton won the ballot – is pleased the former home affairs minister lost the ballot but is still making no guarantees. | |
| She told Guardian Australia: | |
| I believe Morrison is a more palatable [leader] to Mayo compared to Dutton (from what I can tell from emails so far). I hope we can now return to stable government but I will reserve a position on confidence until I get feedback from my community. | |
| Dan Tehan is warning us all to be careful of the Coalition’s “laser-like focus” ahead of the next election. We’ll have never seen such focus, he says. | |
| The focus will be so laser-like that you won’t know what’s hit you. | |
| Morrison emerges from the room, but doesn’t speak. He says he’ll address the nation later in the day. | |
| The former health minister, Greg Hunt, emerges. He speaks: | |
| Two incredible people and two incredible friends have been elected as prime minister and deputy leader of the Liberal party. | |
| I think what we have now is a new generation, a next generation of leadership. Two incredible people of extraordinary integrity and capability. They will give Australia a real change at success.. | |
| Isn’t Morrison/Frydenberg just a continuation of Turnbull? | |
| You’ll see that they’ll put a fresh face on it, it’s a next generation government. | |
| Peter Dutton is speaking. | |
| My course from here is to provide absolute loyalty to Scott Morrison to make sure that we win the election and that we defeat Bill Shorten. | |
| Tony Abbott is next. | |
| We’ve lost a prime minister but we still have a government to save, that is what we will all do our best to do now ... We are the custodians of a great political tradition. | |
| I bumped into a conservative in the corridor on the way to the party room briefing. I expressed commiserations for the difficulties of the day. The MP said to me he was relieved that the brutal transaction would shortly be over. He said he was hopeful. I told him this seemed a strange emotion, in the circumstances. | |
| He said: “The party is taking the government back.” | |
| It’s a useful way of expressing what’s happened over the past couple of weeks – the ritual banishment of the outsider, Malcolm Turnbull– but the question is what party is taking what government back? | |
| The Liberal party is divided. So is the government. This has been the most vicious leadership contest of them all. Australian politics, and all who watch it, have touched the depths of despair over the course of the past week. | |
| By electing Scott Morrison as leader, the Liberal party is attempting to bridge the divide with a candidate who began his career as a moderate and morphed into a conservative. | |
| That truce, to me, looks entirely uneasy. | |
| With the Dutton push, conservatives have attempted to impose their authority on the Liberal party, seizing it from moderates with the objective of crushing them and consigning the Turnbull experiment to history. | |
| It was a battle of brute force, not of diplomacy and persuasion. It was about an assertion of power – a statement of who should wield it, and even more importantly, who shouldn’t wield it. | |
| They’ve lost the battle, at least in this round. | |
| In the end, they were outflanked, and Turnbull used his last hours in office to help deliver the hammer blow. | |
| Now that it’s done, there will be talk of healing. I’m sure there will be healing gestures. | |
| But this has been politics at its most brutal. The Australian public have watched, and they won’t forget it. | |
| Now for the reckoning, internally and externally. | |
| Malcolm Turnbull has just left the party room, flanked by Julie Bishop, the deputy Liberal leader. He was all smiles, but didn’t stop to speak to the media. We’re likely to hear from him later. | |
| The Christian lobby has wasted no time in welcoming Morrison to the leadership. Morrison is an avowed Christian and an active member of an evangelical church. | |
| Australian Christian Lobby, it’s finger poised over the send button, just celebrated Scott Morrison’s ascendency. pic.twitter.com/HjkoLRCCoU | |
| The Nationals MP Kevin Hogan just told me he still plans to go to the crossbench as a result of the leadership spill in the Liberal party – his warning shot before the party room was that any spill would trigger that move, it wasn’t about who emerged as Liberal leader. | |
| However, Hogan has written a letter guaranteeing confidence and supply to the Coalition government. | |
| It’s likely there will be no issue of confidence and supply for Scott Morrison – once the Coalition agreement is put back into place, Hogan’s confirmation of confidence and supply means it won’t fall on the floor of the lower house. | |
| We can have technical arguments about whether having 75 MPs with one in the Speaker’s chair makes it a minority government, though. | |
| The currency has risen sharply after the treasurer secured the path to the top office, jumping 0.4% to US72.82c. | |
| This is good fort he Aussie because its a steady hand on the Tiller even though its 45/40 to ScoMoLook for a move back to 73 cents...I'm long - took a punt on ScoMo$AUDUSD #forex #markets #ausbiz #auspol | |
| The whip is addressing the media. She announces Josh Frydenberg was elected deputy. | |
| She says: | |
| A ballot conducted in the party room for the leadership of the Liberal party. The successful candidate was Scott Morrison and he won this vote by 45 votes to 40 for Peter Dutton | |
| In relation to the deputy position, this was won in an overwhelming sense ... by Josh Frydenberg. | |
| Nola Marino: Scott Morrison PM, @JoshFrydenberg deputy. pic.twitter.com/IEX0QTGeOY | |
| The government whip, Nola Marino, is approaching the press to announce the results formally. | |
| A momentous moment in Australian political history. Scott Morrison to become Australia’s 30th prime minister. The Liberal party room meeting is still going. There’s still the deputy vote to come. We’ll soon hear from the whip on the official result. | |
| Who is Morrison? The man who has made the journey from the Shire to The Lodge. | |
| We profiled the former treasurer this morning. Here’s a flavour: | We profiled the former treasurer this morning. Here’s a flavour: |
| The boy from the Shire – a cluster of southern beach suburbs in Sydney renowned for its churches, lack of ethnic diversity and embrace of suburban life – was never going to be left out of the scramble for power that’s convulsing the Coalition. | The boy from the Shire – a cluster of southern beach suburbs in Sydney renowned for its churches, lack of ethnic diversity and embrace of suburban life – was never going to be left out of the scramble for power that’s convulsing the Coalition. |
| He will be hoping his track record as a political warrior, but with a slightly less confrontational style and no constitutional complications, will give him the edge over fellow conservative, Peter Dutton, who has precipitated the challenge. | He will be hoping his track record as a political warrior, but with a slightly less confrontational style and no constitutional complications, will give him the edge over fellow conservative, Peter Dutton, who has precipitated the challenge. |
| The son of a policeman and an active member of the ShireLive evangelical church, Morrison wears his political ambition and his conservative credentials proudly. | The son of a policeman and an active member of the ShireLive evangelical church, Morrison wears his political ambition and his conservative credentials proudly. |
| He voted No on same-sex marriage, listed “church” as one of his interests in his Who’s Who report, and counts former prime minister John Howard as his political inspiration. | He voted No on same-sex marriage, listed “church” as one of his interests in his Who’s Who report, and counts former prime minister John Howard as his political inspiration. |
| Before he entered parliament, Morrison was a wheeler and dealer in NSW Liberal Right politics and was always going to go places. | Before he entered parliament, Morrison was a wheeler and dealer in NSW Liberal Right politics and was always going to go places. |
| But his overweening ambition, and his preparedness to swap allegiances to further his own position, may count against him in what has become a fight over the heart and soul of the Liberal party. | But his overweening ambition, and his preparedness to swap allegiances to further his own position, may count against him in what has become a fight over the heart and soul of the Liberal party. |
| Scott Morrison has won the leadership spill 45 votes to Dutton’s 40. He will become the next prime minister of Australia. Dutton, despite all the turmoil of this week, has lost the spill. | |
| Turnbull’s preferred candidate gets in. What will this mean for the Liberal party and the bitter dispute, driven by conservatives, that has done it so much damage already? Will the Dutton/Abbott conservatives be content with this result? Hard to say they will be. | Turnbull’s preferred candidate gets in. What will this mean for the Liberal party and the bitter dispute, driven by conservatives, that has done it so much damage already? Will the Dutton/Abbott conservatives be content with this result? Hard to say they will be. |
| There are early reports coming through of numbers. We’ve made a decision, due to all the misinformation during this spill, to wait and confirm the results. | There are early reports coming through of numbers. We’ve made a decision, due to all the misinformation during this spill, to wait and confirm the results. |