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Scott Morrison was installed as Australia’s seventh prime minister in 11 years on Friday after a stunning party revolt against Malcolm Turnbull, which the new leader admitted had left the government “bruised and battered”.
Former home affairs minister Peter Dutton, an ex-police officer and right-winger, was the driving force behind the move to oust Turnbull after a Liberal Party backlash against his more moderate policies.
But after a torrid week of political manoeuvring in Canberra it was Morrison, a Turnbull ally who served as treasurer, who won a party vote 45-40.
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Morrison – an evangelical Christian known as “ScoMo” – replaced a man who became the latest in a long line of leaders knifed in the back by ambitious colleagues.
The fresh outbreak of political instability was met with renewed disgust towards the political class – already among the least trusted people in the country despite an unprecedented era of prosperity
Morrison admitted the extraordinary scenes in the nation’s capital had taken a heavy toll on parliament and the Liberal Party.
“Our job … is to ensure that we not only bring our party back together, which has been bruised and battered this week, but that will ensure we bring the Parliament back together, that we can continue to work to ensure that our country stays close together.”

He said his top priority was to help farmers in New South Wales struggling through one of the worst droughts in half a century.
“This is our most urgent and pressing need right now,” Morrison said.
Dutton, who Turnbull accused of bullying and intimidation in the move to knife him, pledged to provide “absolute loyalty” to Morrison.
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Turnbull, who pledged to quit parliament after his near three-year reign came to an end, survived one attempt to oust him on Tuesday, but ministers then began defecting, throwing the government into crisis.
His departure from politics will spark a by-election for his Sydney seat, threatening the government’s wafer-thin one-seat parliamentary majority.
He used his final press conference to lash out at the “wreckers” in his party.

“There was a determined insurgency from a number of people both in the party room and backed by voices, powerful voices, in the media,” he told reporters, in reference to media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s conservative News Corporation.
“It was described as madness by many, and … in so far as there has been chaos this week, it has been created by the wreckers.”
Dutton, who favours slashing migrant numbers and even pulling Australia out of the Paris climate agreement, was the sole candidate to be prime minister until Thursday when Morrison entered the fray to try to halt his power grab.
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Former prime minister Tony Abbott, an arch conservative widely seen as the instigator of the move to get rid of Turnbull, said it was now important to “save the government” with national elections due by the middle of next year.
Morrison, a former immigration minister, who took credit for “stop the boats” – a harsh policy to halt asylum seekers from entering Australia – is further to the right than Turnbull but not as hardline as some in the party.
Politics expert Rob Manwaring of Flinders University said Morrison was likely to continue Turnbull’s economic agenda, of which he was one of the main architects as treasurer.

But he could shift the government’s environment policy to the right as a consistent voter against the introduction of a carbon price.
“In one sense I think there would be continuity [in the economic portfolio], in another sense, [he’ll be] trying to downgrade or shift any radical action on climate policy,” he said.
The unrest is the latest chapter in a turbulent decade for Australian politics, which has frequently descended into squabbling that has alienated voters.
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No leader has managed to serve out a full term since former Prime Minister John Howard lost the 2007 election, in a remarkable revolving door at Canberra’s parliament house.
One minister was so disillusioned with the push to oust Turnbull that he took to Twitter to apologise to the Australian people.
“Australia. We owe you an apology. I’m sorry. You deserve better than many of the things our Federal Parliament has served up to you for the past 10 years,” wrote Nationals MP Darren Chester, whose party is in coalition with the Liberals.


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Malcolm Turnbull out, Scott Morrison in as new Australian prime minister

Scott Morrison. Photo: EPA

Australia's incoming Prime Minister Scott Morrison (R) walks next to his deputy Josh Frydenberg after a party meeting in Canberra on August 24, 2018. - Treasurer Scott Morrison was on August 24 picked as Australia's new prime minister after a Liberal party coup in a stunning upset against key challenger Peter Dutton. Josh Frydenberg, the environment and energy minister, was selected as deputy Liberal leader. (Photo by Andrew Taylor / POOL / AFP)

Peter Dutton, Australia's former minister of home affairs, speaks during a news conference in Canberra, Australia, on Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018. Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull survived a leadership vote on Tuesday but may be challenged again within days amid growing unease among party colleagues about the government's slumping poll ratings. Photographer: Mark Graham/Bloomberg

Incumbent Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, left, walks with Foreign Minister Julie Bishop after a party meeting in Canberra, Australia Friday, Aug. 24, 2018. Australia government lawmakers on Friday elected Treasurer Scott Morrison as the next prime minister in a ballot that continues an era of extraordinary political instability. (David Gray/Pool Photo via AP)

Scott ‘stop the boats’ Morrison is Australia’s new prime minister

Scott Morrison rose to public prominence when the conservative coalition government was first elected under Prime Minister Tony Abbott in 2013 as the minister who stopped asylum seekers from attempting to reach Australian shores by boat

epa03295147 A handout photo released by the Indonesian National Search And Rescue Agency (BASARNAS) showing an Australian Navy vessel (L) sailing alongside a wooden boat carrying up to 180 asylum seekers on the waters off Christmas Island, Australia, 04 July 2012. An Australian navy vessel was sailing alongside a boat carrying up to 180 refugees that sent a distress call after it left Indonesia for Australia's Indian Ocean territory of Christmas Island, officials said. EPA/BASARNAS / HANDOUT HANDOUT PHOTO, EDITORIAL ONLY HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES

epa06963459 Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull (L) and Australian Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison (R) speak to the media during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, 22 August 2018. According to media reports, Prime Minister Turnbull expressed that he will no longer pursuit corporate tax cuts in the next federal elections, scheduled to take place on or before 02 November 2019. EPA-EFE/LUKAS COCH AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND OUT

(FILES) This file photo received on February 18, 2014, shows an undated photo obtained from the Refugee Action Coalition, shows a man walking between tents at Australia's regional processing centre on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea. Footage from within one of Australia's offshore detention facilities for asylum seekers reached its first international audience in London on October 9, 2017, with one of the filmmakers highlighting the plight of his co-director who remains inside the camp. The footage was shot on a smartphone by Behrouz Boochani, an Iranian who has spent four years in the camp since the boat he was trying to reach Australia on was intercepted by the authorities. Boochani had been invited by the British Film Institute (BFI) to attend the screening of his film, with the festival hosts praising the documentary as "brave, thoughtful and urgent filmmaking". / AFP PHOTO / REFUGEE ACTION COALITION / Handout

Australia government lawmakers on Friday elected Treasurer Scott Morrison as the next prime minister in a ballot that continues an era of extraordinary political instability. File photo: Reuters

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Australia now has its seventh prime minister in the past 11 years as Turnbull is forced out by hardline conservative Liberal Party lawmakers


Australia now has its seventh prime minister in the past 11 years as Turnbull is forced out by hardline conservative Liberal Party lawmakers.


Malcolm Turnbull out, Scott Morrison in as new Australian prime minister

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Australia now has its seventh prime minister in the past 11 years as Turnbull is forced out by hardline conservative Liberal Party lawmakers