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that guy was almost the prime minister of australia.

• fphhotchips 8y ago
  Might have made it all the way, if only he could count.
• stephen_g 8y ago
  He also only holds his seat on a 1.6% margin, and was only one vote (his own) away from being forced to resign in a vote of no confidence last week (for misleading Parliment over the handling of some immigration cases where he interveined to let in au pairs for friends/Liberal party donors who admitted that they were going to illegally work on tourist visas)... The next Federal election can't come soon enough...
  • flukus 8y ago
    > The next Federal election can't come soon enough... Where they'll be replaced by the Labor party who also support this.
    • tonteldoos 8y ago
      But the PM is likely to be changed halfway through the term anyway (along with his/her ministers), so this really doesn't make much of a difference either way :-/
      • flukus 8y ago
        At least they've fixed that, replacing leader would be a month long affair and be voted on by every member of the party.
• lostlogin 8y ago
  Given that the rate at which Australia changes prime minister, is ‘almost prime minister’ a compliment or an insult? There hasn’t been one that survived a term in over a decade. https://www.google.co.nz/amp/s/amp.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2018/09/04/why-australia-loses-prime-ministers#ampf=undefined https://www.google.co.nz/amp/s/amp.economist.com/the-economi...
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