Australian ex-PM challenges PM

[boofhead]

And voting is ''compulsory'' here?

We had a witch (first female PM (lefties go ape now)) betray and replace a standing elected PM from within her own party. Unelected, boring face. Unelected, uninspiring.

So now the former PM is going to fight her for the top job.

Nobody asked for this party rubbish. Get your crap together or bugger off!

And it's compulsory for me to vote.

[boofhead]

My vote is ''You're all , don't even talk to me. Leave me alone and we'll be fine.''

[bushbush]

Rudd is making a big gamble here. Gillard actually called the leadership vote herself (after Rudd challenges her of course) and it seems she is quite confident that she has enough MPs supporting her. I don't know how Rudd is going to convince enough people to ditch Gillard before Monday.

[Dr Zoidberg]

He doesn't have the numbers. He's going t lose - badly - and be banished to the backbench. Personally, I wouldn't be surprised that if he loses he won't stand again at the next election. Labor is going to get annihilated at the next election; why would you want to sit n the opposition backbencher for the next ten years?

[bushbush]

He doesn't have the numbers. He's going t lose - badly - and be banished to the backbench. Personally, I wouldn't be surprised that if he loses he won't stand again at the next election. Labor is going to get annihilated at the next election; why would you want to sit n the opposition backbencher for the next ten years?

It looks more and more like a suicide mission for Rudd to me. He isn't going to win but he will destroy Gillard's hope of winning another election and staying as leader. I guess Rudd is thinking, if I can't have it, you can't either, !

[Condottiere 40K]

If he can't win, perhaps it's his way to commit seppuku (or excuse so that he doesn't have to face his constituents in the next general election).

[John ''True Grit'' Wayne]

Only in Australia

[Dr Zoidberg]

Only in Australia

Or, you know, any other multi-party, parliamentary system. But don't let the facts get in the way of your pithy comments there Tom...

[boofhead]

They' re arguing like teenage scags.

They have a country to run.

I vote they suck.

[Heinz Guderian]

Is this going to be a general election or a leadership election?

[Dr Zoidberg]

Is this going to be a general election or a leadership election?

It's a leadership challenge. On Monday at 10am, the Labor caucus will vote to elect a party leader. That leader, by merit that Labor currently is in government will become the Prime Minister.

[Heinz Guderian]

It's a leadership challenge. On Monday at 10am, the Labor caucus will vote to elect a party leader. That leader, by merit that Labor currently is in government will become the Prime Minister.

i'm confused. Boof said its compulsory for him to vote. I'd ask him, but he kinda scares me.

[Dr Zoidberg]

i'm confused. Boof said its compulsory for him to vote. I'd ask him, but he kinda scares me.

Ah, I see the confusion. It's compulsory to vote in a general election. What's going on currently is internal Labor leadership tensions. It's just unfortunate that they happen to be in government at the same time. And given they are a minority government who govern with the support of a minor party and some independents who made deals with Gillard; a change in PM could see those deals cancelled and the country head to a general election if the major opposition party couldn't secure the support of the independents to form their own minority government.

[boofhead]

103 people are going to vote.

It's fairly dubious.

[Niles Crane]

It'll be nice to have a family member back in power.

/Makes comment only to never return with answers to the inevitable questions.

[boofhead]

They're SKUNKS

They're ing maggots.
We choose a PM, not the Labor Party

Remember that?

All those labor voters asked for a change.

They got this lmfao

[Dr Zoidberg]

103 people are going to vote.

It's fairly dubious.

102; ones on maternity leave.

They're ing maggots.
We choose a PM, not the Labor Party

No boof, we don't. We vote for the representatives of a party. That party chooses its leader. Unless you actually live in his electorate, you've never voted for Rudd. If you voted Labor because of its leader, then that's a perfectly valid reason. But it means nothing as far as our parliamentary system goes and you're just leaving yourself open for disappointment if/when what is happening does occasionally happen. Especially considering this isn't the first time a spill has happened.

Nowhere does it say that a party has to stick with the leader it had at an election until the next election.

[Heinz Guderian]

i actually didnt know it was compulsory to vote in Aus general elections. Gonna rep boof for that.

[Dr Zoidberg]

i actually didnt know it was compulsory to vote in Aus general elections. Gonna rep boof for that.

IIRC we're one of two countries that have compulsory voting.

[Captain Blackadder]

i actually didnt know it was compulsory to vote in Aus general elections. Gonna rep boof for that.

Technically it isn't all you have to do is turn up to a polling booth on election day and take the pape you can write what you like on that piece of paper/