{"id":13369,"date":"2018-08-31T10:24:18","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T10:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13369"},"modified":"2018-08-31T10:24:18","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T10:24:18","slug":"former-pm-malcolm-turnbull-resigns-from-australian-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13369","title":{"rendered":"Former PM Malcolm Turnbull resigns from Australian parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"89.1731843575\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">Former Australian Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2017\/11\/turnbull-government-cling-power-mp-resigns-171111065816880.html\">Macolm Turnbull<\/a> has resigned from parliament after he was removed from office in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/08\/ousted-australian-pm-turnbull-set-quit-parliament-180828061331120.html\">bitter conservative rebellion<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Turnbull, the country&#8217;s 29th prime minister, who first entered parliament in 2004, handed his resignation letter on Friday to the speaker of the lower house, Tony Smith.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">His resignation will trigger a by-election in his Sydney electorate of Wentworth, which could threaten the coalition government&#8217;s one-seat majority in the lower house of parliament.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div data-embed-type=\"Brightcove\" data-embed-id=\"5826388989001\">\n<table class=\"in-article-item video\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody readability=\"1\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr readability=\"3\">\n<td readability=\"5\">\n<p>Scott Morrison in as new prime minister of Australia<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Turnbull became the fourth prime minister to be dumped by his or her own party since 2010 in response to poor opinion polling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Until a by-election can be contested, Australia&#8217;s new Prime Minister Scott Morrison is left relying on the support of independent legislators to pass legislation, inhibiting the government&#8217;s agenda just eight months out from an election.<\/p>\n<p>Besides no longer having a majority in the lower house of parliament, the government does not control the upper house Senate.<\/p>\n<p>According to the latest opinion polls, Australia&#8217;s ruling Liberal-National coalition will struggle to be re-elected in a poll due before May 2019.<\/p>\n<p>After a tumultuous Liberal party leadership battle last week, the two-party-preferred vote between the opposition Labor party and the coalition blew out 56-44 in favour of Labor, which would translate into a heavy election defeat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Australian Prime Minister Macolm Turnbull has resigned from parliament after he was removed from office in a bitter conservative rebellion last week. Turnbull, the country&#8217;s 29th prime minister, who first entered parliament in 2004, handed his resignation letter on Friday to the speaker of the lower house, Tony Smith. His resignation will trigger a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":13370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}