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@donnashuggy wrote:
It's over

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Hopefully a new beginning. Heaven knows we need it.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2015/sep/14/its-on-but-can-this-mystery-potato-save...

Yes, he had to be PM on Friday to get the full entitlements . Just watching sky atm and David Spears just reported lots of anger and finger pointing going on in LNP right now

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@myoclon1cjerk wrote:
Tony's 3 days short of qualifying for a PM's pension,a rule he introduced.

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Oh my! and I thought my day couldn't get any better. 🙂

I suppose that may be one reason he tried to hang on and maybe one reason why his disaffected supporters acted to dump him sooner rather than later.

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@iapetus_rocks wrote:

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@myoclon1cjerk wrote:
Tony's 3 days short of qualifying for a PM's pension,a rule he introduced.

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Oh my! and I thought my day couldn't get any better. 🙂

 

I suppose that may be one reason he tried to hang on and maybe one reason why his disaffected supporters acted to dump him sooner rather than later.

 

 

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it's not as if he was impoverished if he doesn't get it.

Although, I just heard Barnaby Joyce speaking (on ABC 24) saying

that the Coalition govt is based on an agreement between the leaders of the Nats and the leader of the Libs (it's a personal agreement) and that until negotiations for a new Coalition agreement have been made, that Mr Abbott remains as PM and that "over the next few days" discussions will be held to sort out the new Coalition agreement.

What are the odds that these negotiations will stretch out for just a fraction more than the next three days?

I hope it's not a ploy so that abbott gets his full entitlements, but it could be