Oz’s Turnbull feels the heat

Sydney – Australia’s opposition Labor Party looks to be in the envious position of having to do little to ensure victory in the next election after Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull survived a damaging leadership challenge yesterday.

Polling and growing dissatisfaction with Turnbull’s fractured centre-right government, led by his Liberal Party, suggest all Labor has to do before the next election, which could be as soon as next month or as late as May, is avoid shooting themselves in the foot.

“I would think the Liberal Party have a very limited chance of winning the next election,” said Ian McAllister, professor of Political Science at Australian National University in Canberra.

“Labor’s strategy would just be to do very little, just sit on the sidelines.

“They’ll just be bystanders until the election is called.” – Reuters