Yeah, insurgents. Turnbull described people who opposed him in exactly the same way he described Muslim terrorists. What a lovely man he was. And, yes again. Describing the new leadership as a “new generation” is absolute rubbish. We won't notice any difference. All the usual suspects are still there; the good jobs have just been reshuffled. It is extremely doubtful that they will be able to 'unlearn’ Turnbullisims - only Dutton and Abbott could have done that. And, what the hell has Annabel Crabb got to do with anything? The main change seems to be that someone has convinced a boatload of idiots that it was OK to come here because our tough immigration Minister was gone, and the rest of Australia's politicians were idiots. Luckily, they weren't told about the crocodiles. Here's hoping the those reptiles will protect our borders better than than the two legged variety.

Turnbull us been and gone and went, leaving behind him the exact chaos be intended leaving when he finally got sick of playing his nasty games.

There is a god.....
It`s NOT Dutton! ! ! ! !

Overall I think it turned out a pretty good result. The man who stole the PM's job and took a 30 seat majority to one reaped what he had sown. He had the regressive media backing him with the abc the main culprit. Never could accept the fact that Abbott did stop the boats which everyone claimed was impossible and he got rid of the idiotic carbon tax fraud. Yep sad that politics is so filfthy and yet Turnbull had knifed a number along the way to steal the job. Hopefully like the yanks the general population we wake up to the renewable gw scam where we are paying massively high power prices thanks to the ideology backed by pseuso science held by Rudd/ Gillard/Turnbull.

Come on Binoy, how about some truth in your essay.

This was all about stopping Turnbull using us as his gift to the UN, & to hell with our sovereignty. We were his Trojan horse to use like Rudd, to buy favour, & the UN secretary general job.

His power plan had a nasty bit to lock in us reducing CO2 emissions, something that no nation has been prepared to do.

Just at the time when even the EU countries, & China are stepping back, [or actually running away] from the mad love affair with alternate power generation, he wanted to lock us into it.

The left/green must hate it, but Tony Abbott has saved us again from this fools megalomania. Remember he gave Labor a copy of his plan, but wanted the Libs to approve it unseen.

We must have a death wish as a nation. How we can elect such a precession of evil people whose only wish is to use us I really can't understand.

Just look at it, Rudd, Gillard & Turnbull, evil personified & we elect them.

Now we have a Turnbull light in the job. God help us

All that's happened is a poll position for the deeply divided coalition that'd guarantee an electoral wipeout for the diabolically damaged coalition if an election was held tomorrow or next week.

Vox populi furious their champion been rolled by born to rule conservatives. Goings on in Canberra, last few weeks, could have been taken straight from the celluloid of a film shot in Checkoslovakia and depicts a tale titled, Insane, where the inmates have taken over the asylum?

Morrison can wave his hand throwing taxpayers money at the drought, as the CHARITY rolls out, a few folks may benefit? The rest will just get deeper in debt to the banks.

Who will just like carnivorous vultures, bid their time until their prey cannot fight back, to move in for their pound of flesh.

The only way to fix endless droughts is to add water. Not from bone dry dams, built at enormous taxpayer's expense. But rather, gained from inexhaustible sources like the oceans/desalination!

Or, from an inland canal that allows huge northern tides to keep Lake Eyre permanently full/routinely flushed.

Given much of the projected canal way is already below sea level, not anything like the impossible engineering project the shock jocks and Murdoch will claim in their ignorance, it is.

If they claim it's impossible? The very best reason to try it and the self-terminating, government guaranteed, tax-free, 30-year bonds that would fund it, several dozen waste burning power stations and the deionisation dialysis desalination plants that would dot the banks of this project.

Given it would repay itself over and over as a transport hub, water and affordable reliable electricity sales!

All that prevents it are those folk now in government, or those who surely will replace them? As we stagger from one crisis to the next and desertification that increases year on year, decade on decade as all the Austerity is wasted on CHARITY for whomsoever needed to ensure the best electoral prospects for those throwing our money around for the, business as usual, short-termism!
Alan B'

It is nice to be rid of Crap- for- Brains, and the Witch, but we need our prime minister back. Tony Abbott.

Building an inland canal between Lake Eyre and port headland, not as difficult as many would assume. Given there are a series of dry salt lakes in a line between that are already below sea level and just need an electrically powered dragline to open a short and narrow strip that allows the ocean to reclaim those lakes, cutter dredges can move more earth more economically than any other form of earthworks.

And run the spoil through towed barges set up as gravity separation mineral processing plants that recover all the heavier mineralisation that bound to be there! And separated in the towed separation plant. All of which could be powered along with a floating maintenance workshop and desal plant, by inboard MSR thorium.

Ditto the electrically powered draglines.

Both legs of this project could be started simultaneously with the other leg starting in the Gulf of Carpentaria, and only a small range of soft limestone hills needing electric draglines to lower them down, with a few dozen electric dump trucks engaged in removing and stockpiling the limestone spoil.

This limestone could be crushed before final stockpiling and saved to use as a flocculant? Any igneous rock could be saved and used to line the inside banks etc.to prevent erosion and as a road to take the construction crews in and out etc. As they build the power plants desal plants and small towns alongside said canal.

Lock gates at either entrance would enable huge northern tides to flow in a single one-way direction to allow shipping to use less power except for normal maneuvering.

Add a few seaside desal and, 2 cents per Kwh, MSR power plants and we could transform the two driest states WA and SA and also recharge the normal sea breezes with more moisture that carry far further inland.

I shouldn't be surprised if this project, its mineral recovery tail wouldn't pay for its own (deep and wide) construction costs?

From the sale of recovered alluvial minerals. Those same salt lakes, bound to be a natural, chock block, repository?
Alan B.

The author needs correction for relevance by moi :)

After the political chaos last week - there is likely to be little disruption to Australia's Adelaide centric shipbuilding program under the new ministry selected by Scott Morrison.

On Monday August 27, 2018:

- former Defence Minister Marise Payne was moved sideways to Foreign Minister

- former Defence Industry Minister Christopher Pyne was appointed Defence Minister. Adelaide politician Pyne thus will maintain the Adelaide centric status quo.

Federal money dependent Adelaide remains Australia's naval shipbuilding center due to the electoral voting/seats. He/she who pleases Adelaidians will stay in government in Canberra.

Rising politician Steve Ciobo from Queensland has been appointed Defence Industry Minister.

Of other Ministers with influence over shipbuilding:

- Prime Minister Morrison will likely maintain the policy settings of his former Treasurer role in retaining most naval shipbuilding in Adelaide.

- this is cemented by Mathias Cormann retaining his Finance Minister role with strong influence over shipbuilder and submarine maintainer ASC's role in Adelaide.

Potential disruptor Tony Abbott remains in backbench limbo with no ministerial power to alter the naval shipbuilding mix. So far Prime Minister Morrison has resisted any rightwing factional pressure to return "Mad Monk" rival Abbott to the Ministry.

Pete
Pontificating at http://gentleseas.blogspot.com/2018/08/status-quo-retained-in-australias.html

hopefully the new defense minister will put an end to all the virtue signalling and emasculation of the males in the defence force. I don't hold out a lot of hope.

Hopefully, the wreckers will remain on the backbench until their voters decide their fate. Which no amount of BWS shovelled by the shipload will change, in the interim the new team needs to crack on with what their most important task. Tackling the consequence of drought in the short term with handouts and CHARITY? And some long-term solutions

As for Mr Abbott? I think his machinations have already done enough damage and at last divided the liberal liberals from the conservative liberals

. And not before time! Maybe, just maybe now we can get a little more democracy into preselection and or rolling a PM? My bet is, Mr Abbot has no more shots in the locker and few if any friends in the pre-selection committee.

Albeit, the shock jocks and the Murdoch media will be all over this like a tin roof on a shanty? And given a landslide loss, will wonder what was this man thinking or smoking?
Alan B.

Building an inland canal between Lake Eyre and port headland,
Alan B,
How many more times will it take to draw attention to this solution before some bureaucrat accidently gets some sense knocked in & gives the go-ahead for this. Apart from the irrigation bonuses there'll be hundreds of millions opened up for lakeside land real estate.
Just so to get lay some bait let's begin every thread about this with that australian religion symbol $$$$$$$$$.

Alan B,
Come to think of it, the flooding of Lake Eyre should please the rising sea level alarmists because all that water running from the ocean to inland Australia should lower the sea level by at least a millimetre. ;-)

Bring back Abbot

Cherful is right:
Bring back Tony Abbott.
Otherwise, what is the point in ridding ourselves of the Boofhead and the Bitch who back-stabbed him?

I think the best maneuvre for the Coalition would be to dissect their policies on Welfare, Immigration, local enterprise, inland irrigation, infrastructure & Taxation so they can conclude sooner rather than after electoral defeat that the present policies are flawed & rectify them now ! Forget past leaders get better ones. They are available if they just cared to look.