Tony Abbott has brought forward the party room vote on his leadership by one day, shortly after his possible rival Malcolm Turnbull emphasised the importance of keeping it on Tuesday.Read the entire article here.
Wow. Pure gamesmanship and to be honest a bit of nastiness on the part of Mr. Abbott.
Why is this showing up on a defense blog? Simple. Because this could affect the program that I love to hate...the F-35. The full ramifications are unknown to me and I'll be sending e-mails to a couple of Australian contacts I have (especially ELP Blog) but its already slowing things up in other areas...like a certain project to replace the LAV that is going absolutely no where till this mess is settled.
An election in Australia could have an impact on US defense procurement?!!! That's globalization for ya!
