When the Communications Minister is away…
Malcolm Turnbull might have resigned today but ABC honcho Mark Scott (who himself announced his departure date today) is urging the Q&A guys not to let their hair down too much…
Unsurprisingly Twitter has been having a field day with the fifth spill in five years, indeed it’s nice for comedians to be able to reuse six year old material with such regularity as Dan Ilic has here:
Meanwhile Melbourne’s the Herald Sun appears to have nailed its colours to the mast early:
Front page of @theheraldsun tomorrow pic.twitter.com/LhLofjx7aN — Rob Harris (@rharris334) September 14, 2015
Although this changed after the vote to this:
Compare and contrast. First and second editions of the Herald Sun pic.twitter.com/TsXLY0n601”
— Antony (Tony) Walker (@tonywalker1) September 14, 2015
The SMH has also posted its front page here:
The SMH, first edition, p1. pic.twitter.com/eWgGPp8HJ5 — Ben Cubby (@bencubby) September 14, 2015
As had The Age:
The Age’s first edition front page for tomorrow
The Age’s first edition front page for tomorrow #auspol#libspill. Live blog: http://t.co/SfqGazElC5pic.twitter.com/kgi9hoq66m — The Age (@theage) September 14, 2015
The Courier Mail:
Tomorrow’s @couriermail features nine pages of news and expert analysis following @TurnbullMalcolm‘s leadership win pic.twitter.com/VQc6gQuY2c — The Courier-Mail (@couriermail) September 14, 2015
The Australian:
TURNBULL's TRIUMPH. Tomorrow's @australian front page (final edition) #libspill pic.twitter.com/W8EUNFcgXS
— Nicholas Gray (@NicholasGray) September 14, 2015
And The Daily Telegraph also doesn’t pull its punch on leadership change:
Turnstile. Tomorrow’s @dailytelegraph front page. #libspill pic.twitter.com/PNRvoTEIsM
— Airlie Walsh (@AirlieWalsh) September 14, 2015
Finally Rupert Murdoch weighs in:
Sad to see such a decent man as Abbott toppled. Now Turnbull needs a November election before Labor sacks Shorten.
— Rupert Murdoch (@rupertmurdoch) September 14, 2015
After all this is exactly the kind of thing Twitter was built for – judging by the surge in tweets when the spill was called: There have been >56k Tweets about #LibSpill in just 3hrs peaking at 1,200 per minute http://t.co/h1nJNNxuAf#auspolpic.twitter.com/VXg2NCw5Lm — Twitter Australia (@TwitterAU) September 14, 2015
