As I type these words a spill has happened the PM won 48 to Dutton's 35? And will, with Abbot fanatical urging, likey to challenge again in September?

Which leaves the PM with no other choice but go to an early election to see if Joe public see eye to eye with Abbott and his conservatives/coalition wreckers? Who need the moderates and their policy platform to slide into power on their coattails?

Elections are always won in the moderate middle!

This internal division is crippling a once great party and making the country ungovernable, particularly when with a majority of one and everything needing to be negotiated through the Senate!

Time to end this farce and rank stupidity! Let the wreckers and the climate denialist face the judgement of the people during the height of one of the worst droughts in living memory and see how well the spin works for them and their coal-fired sponsors? And the pragmatism of the bush?
Alan B.

Go Tony. At least you have the countries interest at heart.Malcolm can join the Labour party in leasing this nation to ruin. The idiotic gw scammers and liars have been exposed. Unfortunatley with the dumbed down academics and getup people are to confused to know why we have gone from close to the cheapest power in the world to among the most expensive. Interesting how it seems to be nearly all the females backing Turnbull.

Turnbull is most certainly weak, professionally and personally. However, his weakness hasn't prevented him from sending Australia down the road to nowhere. He has also turned the Liberal party into another Labor party; he has disenfranchised about half the population, and the other half are not going to vote for him in a fit.

The twenty four hour news cycle is beyond Turnbull. Politicians who cannot react and act within that period are doomed to failure. Turnbull is just another rich man, full of himself, with no skin in the struggle that he has inflicted on the rest of us.

There is no suitable replacement for back-stabber Turnbull, so it is curtains for him and his unbelievably wet colleagues in the Liberal party. We must accept that we will have a Green/Labor regime after the next election; and it won't be much different from what we have now.

He has done the Liberals immense damage, the others that voted for him are being blindly to destruction at the next election.

Dutton has lost a challenge against Turnbull 35 to 48. It has begun. Remember, Keating had to try twice against Hawke. Will there be another challenge, or will Turnbull have the guts to go for an election now, and give us the chance to have a say?

Well if you're right runner, which I seriously doubt! You'll surely have no problem with an early election and a very long information loaded campaign!?

And fought on proven facts! And independent fearless fact checking!

Rather than the supposition and stone age assumptions you are famous for?

What do you reckon? Put it to the people you believe are with you and your joyous convictions and let the chips fall where they may.

Or perhaps you'd like Malcolm to resign from the party effectively destroying their one member majority and #1/ Sit on the cross benches and vote with the opposition.

Or #2/ when the next election is called stand as an independent? Either way, he spikes Abbott's guns! And makes his replacement look totally ineffective, and then only if he waits for the axe to fall! And allow the next spill/leadership change?

Which might go off like a suicide bomb in the party room come next election and the judgement of the people!?

Which way will I vote? Don't know yet, but on pragmatic policies, not rubbish personalities! Alan B.