rehctub asks: "So what's all the fuss about with the libs changing leaders"?

Not being treated like persona non grata at international conferences...things like that.

"New York: The Australian delegation to the United Nations General Assembly in New York appears to be receiving a different welcome than it might have had Tony Abbott still been in office.

Doors that were recently firmly closed have mysteriously swung open.

It is understood that senior diplomats, including United States ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power, have expressed enthusiasm at the prospect of working with a government led by Malcolm Turnbull, who forced Mr Abbott from office earlier this month, and who was unable to attend the Assembly.

Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop has received a last minute invitation to attend a Sunday lunch being hosted by United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon for the leaders of about 20 nations to discuss climate change.

China's President Xi Jinping will be in attendance but Mr Abbott, who was to have been attending the General Assembly until the leadership ballot, had not been invited. Ms Bishop will be the only guest at the ministerial level."

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/doors-open-under-new-pm-as-julie-bishop-attends-un-general-assembly-20150926-gjvgfc.html#ixzz3mpyEo4MX

It's a tad refreshing not having a govt led by a flaming foot-in-mouth fool, don't you think?

Poirot "It's a tad refreshing not having a govt led by a flaming foot-in-mouth fool, don't you think?"
More than a tad, I would suggest :)

I, for one, am just looking forward to a PM attending international events and meetings without embarrassing other Australians.
Abbott just wasn't an effective verbal communicator. He did reasonably well with non-verbal communication though....he made it pretty clear to those poor journalists who came up against a silent brick wall of a PM at times!

Here's an interesting take.

The demise of Abbott has led to a bit a civil war at the Murdoch media. We have the far righties, the likes of Andrew Bolt and Steve price now arguing with the Australian Newspaper...which one has to admit is kinda delicious.

"The first public salvo was fired last week by Bolt in his blog, where he lamented that The Australian had been too quick to forget its loyalty to Abbott and “insist others fall in dutifully and loyally behind Turnbull”. Bolt said the overwhelming response he had received from his fans was anger towards Turnbull for having ruthlessly cut down “one of the finest people to be prime minister”."

"Price called Mitchell an “elitist” and claimed his show had a bigger audience than The Australian.

We need recount no more of it, except for Bolt’s one, unarguably true pronouncement: “We worried that Malcolm Turnbull – by deposing Tony Abbott – would set off a civil war within the Liberal Party. Well what he’s done is set off a civil war within News Corp. Oh, what a joke.”

What Bolt appears not to realise, and what Mitchell and the higher-ups at News Corp clearly do, is that the joke is on the loyalists. The right-wing commentators who dominate the pages of the News Corp tabloids and radio talkback are losers just like Abbott. They thought they were kingmakers, but Turnbull became king without them. Worse, he became king in spite of them.

In Tony Abbott they had a leader who constantly played to his political base, using the shock jocks and authorised leaks to the News Corp tabloids as his vehicle. In Turnbull, we have a prime minister clearly intent on trying to win back the middle of politics and public opinion. And he doesn’t need them to do it."

Etc...

http://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2015/09/26/leadership-change-sparks-civil-war-news-corp/14431896002433

Parrot,

I see that once again you are quoting an opinion piece from a wannabee journalist at the one man political Blog the "Saturday paper". The half wit writer is so devoid of anything meaningful to say that he has to describe dissenting opinion as civil war.

The reason that many liberal supporters are unhappy with the change in leadership, is that it is clear that Tony Abbott did the heavy lifting in exposing the incompetence and corruption in the Labor party and ridding Australia of two of the most incompetent, bumbling, and embarrassing leaders in Aus history.

When Turnbull was removed it was because of his captain's picks and was given fair warning by TA and others before the party moved against him, and while he may have regained the top job, I doubt the lesson has been forgotten.

What the left whingers have forgotten in their delight at TA's demise is that the Labor party and the greens are looking increasingly less relevant and unelectable. Shorten and the labor party are looking corrupt and beholden to the crime ridden union movement, and the greens who are ever more on the CFMEU payroll are beginning to lose their holier than thou halo and look just a little sleazy.

I see a DD election coming soon once a suitable trigger such as Labor's rejection of the China FTA, which will spring clean the senate of the idiots such as Lambie and deliver a majority in both houses.

SM,

"The reason that many liberal supporters are unhappy with the change in leadership, is that it is clear that Tony Abbott did the heavy lifting in exposing the incompetence and corruption in the Labor party and ridding Australia of two of the most incompetent, bumbling, and embarrassing leaders in Aus history."

Lol!....goodness me - what a Superman!

I wonder why he was booted into the stratosphere then?

Parrot,

Why was Hawke booted to the stratosphere? Because he couldn't get the polling to win. Rudd was knifed for incompetence and Juliar for the stench of corruption and lying to the electorate? Abbott's achievements far exceed that of Labor over 2 years. And that combined with a leader that the media loves, Labor is in for a hiding.

I would however, support TA splitting from the liberal party to form a conservative party in much the same way as the Greens became the labor socialist party.