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Judi Lynn

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Mon Jul 4, 2016, 02:58 AM Jul 2016

Call for Australian leader's resignation amid election chaos

Source: Associated Press

Call for Australian leader's resignation amid election chaos

Kristen Gelineau, Associated Press
Updated 1:44 am, Monday, July 4, 2016

SYDNEY (AP) — With Australia's government in chaos amid a dramatic national election that failed to deliver an immediate winner, the country's opposition leader called on Monday for the prime minister to resign, dubbing him "the David Cameron of the southern hemisphere."

The dig by opposition leader Bill Shorten comes as the country faces up to a month of uncertainty while officials scramble to count the millions of mail-in and remaining ballots that will determine who, if anyone, won Saturday's knife-edge election.

With about a quarter of the votes left to be tallied, neither Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's conservative Liberal Party-led coalition nor Shorten's center-left Labor Party had secured the required 76 seats in the 150-seat House of Representatives to form a government — raising the prospect of a dreaded hung parliament.

"Mr. Turnbull clearly doesn't know what he is doing. Quite frankly, I think he should quit," Shorten told reporters. "He has taken this nation to an election on the basis of stability. He has delivered instability. ... The bloke is not up to the job."

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/world/article/Aussie-leaders-seek-minor-party-support-amid-8339697.php

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Call for Australian leader's resignation amid election chaos (Original Post) Judi Lynn Jul 2016 OP
Because why should the UK have all the political chaos?! LeftishBrit Jul 2016 #1
Trumbull needs a Katherine Harris Night Watchman Jul 2016 #2
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