Fantastic result...

....for Bill Shorten, the Labor Party, and those of us who couldn't decide what would be more fun - being able to say that Abbott survived as PM for a shorter period than Rudd or Gillard, or watching him struggle in the job for another few months knowing that (in reality, if you reassign votes from cabinet members who didn't vote honestly) about half of his party think he's a dill who needs to go...

Update:  one of the most wryly amusing tweets I've seen on this, just a short time ago:



Update2:  I see that the climate change denying commentators all lined up against Turnbull - Bolt, Blair, Jones, Devine.  Oddly enough, Piers Ackermann says it was probably a mistake not to make Turnbull Treasurer from the start. 

Even funnier is the commentary coming from some at Catallaxy that this win means Abbott must head stronger right and immediately make savage cuts to the ABC.   What a fantasyland they live in, blaming the ABC for the person who will almost certainly go down as the country's dumbest Prime Minister.

Update 3:  Apparently, Tony Abbott's statement direct to camera from his office (already labelled the "broadcast from the bunker")  ends with an very weird looking bit of eye movement from our beloved leader.

Can't wait to see...