Tony Abbott ousted as Aus PM in internal party challenge
Canberra: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott was today dramatically ousted from power by challenger Malcolm Turnbull in an internal party vote just two years after his increasingly unpopular conservative government took office. Turnbull's victory is reminiscent of the coup former prime minister Julia Gillard staged against Kevin Rudd in 2010 and makes the former communications minister Australia's fifth prime minister in just over five years. He said the prime minister was incapable of “providing the economic leadership the country needs”. “The prime ministership of this country is not a prize or a plaything to be demanded,” Abbott said at Parliament House today after Turnbull advised him of the challenge and his decision to quit cabinet.
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