{"id":24791,"date":"2015-02-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/pm-abbott-survives-liberal-vote-61-39\/"},"modified":"2015-02-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T00:00:00","slug":"pm-abbott-survives-liberal-vote-61-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/pm-abbott-survives-liberal-vote-61-39\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Abbott survives Liberal vote 61-39"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Paul Osborne, AAP Senior Political Writer<\/strong><\/p>\n

CANBERRA<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tony Abbott has survived a Liberal party room leadership spill, but his standing as prime minister has taken a battering.<\/h3>\n

Monday’s vote on a motion brought by West Australian Liberal MPs Luke Simpkins and Don Randall failed 61-39.<\/p>\n

Leaving the 40-minute meeting after briefly addressing colleagues, the prime minister said he would make a statement shortly but would not be holding a media conference.<\/p>\n

Former Howard government minister Peter Reith described it as a “very bad day for Tony”.<\/p>\n

“He’s lost a lot of his position today,” he told Sky News.<\/p>\n

“I have no doubt people will switch across now, which will make his position even worse.”<\/p>\n

Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young described the prime minister as “Tick Tock Tony”.<\/p>\n

The lost spill motion meant Liberal MPs did not get to cast their vote on an alternative leader.<\/p>\n

Former leader Malcolm Turnbull and deputy leader Julie Bishop were considered frontrunners if the spill motion had succeeded.<\/p>\n

Chief government whip Philip Ruddock described the vote as “very clear” when he informed the waiting media of the result.<\/p>\n

A Newspoll, published ahead of the party room meeting, showed Labor leading the coalition 57-43 per cent.<\/p>\n

It also showed a Liberal leadership change would improve the government’s stocks.<\/p>\n

Only one in four voters were satisfied with Mr Abbott’s performance.<\/p>\n

In 2012, Labor leader Julie Gillard won a party room vote 71-31 over Kevin Rudd, but lost the leadership a year later.<\/p>\n

Mr Abbott walked into the Parliament House meeting room shortly before the 9am meeting.<\/p>\n

Deputy Liberal leader Julie Bishop was standing next to him.<\/p>\n

Behind him were ministerial colleagues including Mathias Cormann, Christopher Pyne, George Brandis, Josh Frydenberg and Joe Hockey.<\/p>\n

Mr Turnbull arrived on his own.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the morning, Mr Abbott declined to take questions when he arrived at the traditional church service that kicks off the federal parliamentary year.<\/p>\n

Mr Abbott on Sunday described having a spill motion brought against him as a “very chastening experience”.<\/p>\n

He urged his Liberal colleagues to avoid repeating the leadership woes of the previous Labor government.<\/p>\n

“I am determined that my government … will learn from this experience, will be different and better this year than we were in every respect last year,” he said on Sunday.<\/p>\n

SEE ALSO: ABBOTT STILL PM AFTER SPILL VOTE FAILS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

SEE ALSO: CHANNEL SEVEN DETAILS SYDNEY SIEGE DAY<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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