Dutton is challenging again for the prime ministership of the Liberal party, for the second time in the space of a week. The Turnbull gov has fallen apart with ministers resigning from their portfolios left right and centre as they withdraw their support for him. Later today there will be another meeting in which Turnbull will lose his job as prime minster of Australia. We've gone through 5 prime ministers in ten years.
Politically it is a catastrophic move by the Liberal party. Dutton is hugely unpopular in the electorate and doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of ever winning a federal election. As I recently stated, Dutton is about as popular as an unpolished Abbott turd. Plus he may not even be eligible to even be in parliament having interests in two child care centres that receive funding directly from the gov. No doubt Labor is sharpening it's knives for that one.
But of most interest for me today has been the Chris Uhlmann castigation of Newscorp and their role in the rolling of another Australian prime minister. Uhlmann states very forcibly that Murdoch's Newscorp has been waging a war against the PM, and that Dutton has been getting advice from Newscorp journalists (as well as his own advisors). That Newscorp are a bunch of glass jawed bullies. The disconnect between the Newscorp media and what the electorate is actually thinking.
Uhlmann is known for his right of centre stance politically, which makes the video even more unusual. Really have to watch this one, it's quite something.
"News corporations...are waging a war against the Prime Minister of Australia" - @CUhlmann #9Today pic.twitter.com/UaQBLTv0bQ— The Today Show (@TheTodayShow) August 22, 2018
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