Nothing to do with Labor.  You know that troll!  Everything to do with a man who gave himself huge tax cuts and lamented that he could not extend this to his company holdings.

You are a lying disgrace Adrianus.....or whatever other names you post under.  As always NO FACTS, only smear.

MICK, are you still getting in a tiz about that class warfare BS?

How much tax was Turnbull paying on his PM's salary of $1 pa?

OK sure the $528,000 pa PM salary was donated and tax deductible but at what rate? If the rate dropped then the tax deductibility would be worth less. Do try to be a little more clever with your arguments rather than parroting union BS. You're not talking to children here.

In the polls Turnbull held a comfortable lead over Shorten as preferred PM. Newspoll showed the the Coalition as a party was losing to Labor by a huge margin. So it wasn't Turnbull but his own party in the Cabinet that became unpopular. Turnbull's flip-flops were the result of his own cabinet's lack of support, lack of unity on policies and the 'ides of march' conspiracy by characters inspired by mutineers, two radio broadcasters....and Newspoll...one of Murdoch's companies. Turnbull wasn't the problem, the Cabinet and the Party is the problem!!!

As you are well aware Adrianus I am talking about the circa $150 million in offshore tax shelters more than the few million invested here.  You know that.

Nobody will ever know how much tax is evaded because this government introduced laws to hide the affairs of those at the top from the media so that they could legally launder their income with nobody the wiser.  Tell me I'm imagining that.

HS, Turnbull won the party leadership in a democratic vote. If he came out smelling like roses and his party was on the nose then he is responsible. It is the leader's job to increase his majority of support from within his party, not alienate them to the point where he loses their ear. He is doing everything within his power to make sure LNP loses the Wentworth bi-election. His son is raising money for the ALP candidate. The party did the right thing by exposing his lack of loyalty. 

BS! Adrianus.

Come on discuss not acting finger pointing.

Trust accounts, like off shore accounts,  were around when Rudd and Gillard both Labor PM's were last in power. they too had ample opportunity to do something. 

In fact real loop hole closing on tax evasion hasnt been tackled in real terms since Howard was Treasurer back in the 1970's with various schemes going back then. 

I suspect far too many MPs and Senators of all persuasions hold one or both. 

Because its a fact that although the very wealthy do pay more income tax - they actually dont pay the same percentage of their total real income,  as do those on PAYE. 

MT has shown himself up for sure and agree its childish behavior.  

He is just spitting the dummy to quote vernacular. 

Cant stand it he just wanted to be the Prime Minister and cant believe he failed as a Leader. 

Am I missing something?

All money that goes to the centres is passed onto the parents.

But, then the parents pay the centres out of what they receive!...hmm?

HS with that in mind any MP with a business which has pensioners as customers would need a high court ruling under sect.44?

Adrianus, you might be onto something here. Under Sect.44 the "swamp" must be cleared!!!

No surprises there 

bitter and twisted comes to mind .

you wud have supported Rudd and Abbotts actions too I suppose 

hahahaha

And as the Liberal Party MP spruikers repeatedy said "the Liberal Party does not knife its sitting PM".  No mention of that.  Also no mention of the HUGE debt THIS GOVERNMENT has produced for our country whilst Rudd had his small GFC forced debt laundered on the media repeatedly day in and day out.

Write all the propaganda you like.  Readers are beginning to see the light and it ain't pretty.  Nothing worse than when voters start to realise they have been taken for a ride and made mugs of.  Wait for it.

Agree.  Dutton would have even worse than Abbott or Turnbull but the coal industry gets rid of anybody who talks emmissions targets be they ever so miniscule.

Touche!

Mr Dutton has single handedly crucified the Liberal Party at the next election. Malcolm doesn't have to do or say anything. Neither does the Labor Party.

And get rid of Bishop too.  She's given away far too much Australian money when our own farmers (essential services) could have done far better with it. She continually sucked up to the UN, even pouring a huge sum of our money into an organisation that supported a terrorist outfit.  She's been sashaying around the world doing what? apart from displaying beautiful clothes.  Bishop is one of several reasons I do not like or would ever vote for female politicians (and I'm female) and certainly do not support gender-biased "quotas".  Women quotas are patronising and going by many of the ones who held high political office in the past they're no recommendation for the future the most outstanding failure Gillard with her AWU scandal and affairs with married men.

It’s a case of nitwit leading the nitwits...can’t possibly work!

They were sucked in by their own gigantic egos and lust for power. They put Turnbull in when they thought he could win for them, which he did by one seat, then they got rid of him when they thought he might lose the next election. They were too dumb to recognise that Dutton, Abbott and Morrison are even less popular than Turnbull. 

Yes, before Turnbull's axing there was no problem with Dutton. There was no Bullying. There was no appalling behaviour. No sexism. Now there is talk about Rudd style swearing and temper tantrums. Tanya Plibersek now says she can swear as well as the next person. Where is all this coming from?? I guess a week really is a long time in Politics.   

The other odd change which I've noticed is the sentiment toward Turnbull by the left leaners. After continual envious remarks aimed at his wealth, they have done a 180. Now he is poorly done by and didnt deserve to be turfed by his own party. It becomes more apparent that I may have been one of the few people who had no idea Turnbull was a lefty plant.

Robi, you may have spoken too quickly? Give Morrison a couple of months after the door slamming and you may find he is more popular than Bob Hawke or Kevin 007? 

Adrianus, it doesn't matter how popular Mr Morrison turns out to be, we do not vote for a Prime Minister - we vote for our local candidate. It isn't going to take much of a swing towards Labor for them to come in with a landslide victory.

I wish the National Party would step up and start putting forward more contenders in marginal seats.

Robi, how predictable is bias.  Remember how Shorten facilitated the removal of two Prime Ministers (Rudd and Gillard) in order to "shorten" his own leadership waiting time in the guise of the assumption that either sitting Prime Minister could not deliver victory.  In Shorten's case the knifings were purely an act of self-interest.Back stabbing is no stranger to Labor.  As for Morrison, if nothing else thus far, he closed our borders and not before time.  I don't want my grand-daughters growing up fearful of putting a foot out their door minus head or body-covering because that's the way western countries with porous borders are heading.

Rosret, someone must be voting for Morrison otherwise he wouldnt be Prime Minister. Shorten asked the question, which could have come from a Laurel and Hardy skit "Mr Morrison why do Australians have a new Prime Minister?" Was Shorten unaware there had been a change? Or was he exercising his right to inflict as much embarrassment as he himself experienced during his contrived passage to the ALP leadership? You dont become PM without getting a few votes. 

In 2007 Gillard was always the preferred ALP leader while their man Shorten was learning the ropes, but the unions knew she couldnt win the election, so they wheeled in Rudd whose job it was to get them over the line, retire after 12 months on medical grounds, hand over to Gillard who, after serving a term then hands over to Shorten. The succession plan would have worked ok but nobody planned on Kevin 007 thinking that he was actually in charge. The point is that Rudd was as much disliked by his own party before 2007 as he was afterwards. The only difference was that he angered the hard left in the ALP because he wouldnt do what he was told.

Many Labor voters and the unions would like to think that people dont vote for a Prime Minister because they have lessened the value of the office of Prime Minister and intend to continue lowering the standard. Would voters vote in a party which has the most unpopular leader? The face of the party. A person who is representative of that party?