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I honestly don't think the current Liberal leadership woes are as serious as when Rudd/Gillard/Rudd was PM. It seems here there are grumbles by a few MPs (mainly backbenchers) whereas with Rudd and towards the end of Gillard, there were many including prominent front beachers who hated them...

I think ever since Howard left office, these newbies lack experience....many get their without having achieved much because the world somehow now wants younger PMs/Presidents. Hawke had charisma and could wing it without much political experience and had Keating who was a great treasurer and...

Gillard took a swipe at the current Liberal issues saying that at least Labor was in office a little longer before this happened, but isn't this a little different? Sure, both leaders had waning popularity/opinion polls but this is he main issue for Abbott, for Rudd it was more his behavior...

We are quickly catchup up with Japan in that aspect! I don't think Turnbull is the answer, he would be the better PM but not the answer at the moment, he also seems much like Abbott in a sense he is backward has an old style of thinking.

Is it me, or did Rudd/Gillard open the flood gates for this kind of thing? Will future governments quickly get impatient and remove any elected PM if polls/popularity is declining rapidly?