Leadership spill live: Scott Morrison to be Australia's 30th prime minister

We are going to end our live coverage there after another extraordinary day in Australian politics.

Here's a recap of everything that's happened:

• Scott Morrison has been sworn in as Australia's 30th prime minister and Josh Frydenberg as treasurer after they emerged victorious as leader and deputy leader of the Liberal Party in today's party room meeting. The pair have presented themselves as the "next generation" of party leadership and told Australians the government will be on "your side" and guided by the principle of a "fair go".
• Morrison defeated Peter Dutton, the chief agitator of this week's Liberal leadership crisis. Dutton, attracting 40 votes to Morrison's 45, had been championed by the party's conservatives as the man to seize the top job from Malcolm Turnbull and steer the Coalition government in a new direction. Morrison also defeated Julie Bishop, a late entrant in the leadership race.
• Malcolm Turnbull has resigned as prime minister and will soon leave the Parliament altogether. In the end, 40 MPs in the 85-person party room supported keeping him in the job by opposing a spill. If three more had joined them, Turnbull would still be prime minister. This has raised questions and recriminations about the role of Mathias Cormann and others who abandoned Turnbull. 
• Turnbull was relatively relaxed and philosophical in his final press conference as prime minister, expressing pride the achievements of his government, which he called progressive and reforming. He hit out at the "determined insurgency" from Dutton, Tony Abbott and others, saying Australians would be "dumbstruck and appalled" by it.
• Dutton says he doesn't regret agitating against Turnbull and nominated "because I believed I was a better person and a person of greater strength and integrity to lead the Liberal Party". The failed challenger says he will "rise above" Turnbull's criticisms "because there's a lot of emotion and a lot of rewriting of history".
• Morrison now faces the mammoth task of uniting a party riven by bitter factional and ideological divisions. Those divisions caused Turnbull's downfall and have not gone away. There will be new poison injected into the Liberal Party after this week's events. Liberal MPs are urging each other to fall into line behind the new leader.
• Amid speculation about election timing, Morrison said he didn't expect to call an election "any time soon". His new government faces a precarious situation with a vulnerable majority in the House of Representatives. Given the chaos and destruction of the last week, the Coalition will have to experience a dramatic recovery to defeat Bill Shorten's Labor.
• The rest of the ministry will be decided by next week. Morrison indicated Dutton and Bishop would have senior roles if they want them.
• Shorten issued a gracious and classy statement paying tribute to Turnbull. He said he had "always respected him as a formidable opponent, as an advocate of great intellect and eloquence and as someone who came to parliament, relatively late in life, because he was driven by the desire to serve". He said he had observed that Turnbull used the word "love" more frequently than any other prime minister in Australian history. 
• The Opposition Leader also foreshadowed how Labor will attack Morrison as prime minister. They will focus on Morrison's record as treasurer in the Turnbull government, overseeing the push for company tax cuts and opposing a banking royal commission.

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The new leadership of the Liberal Party.Credit: Dominic Lorrimer

Scott Morrison has been put on notice by some conservative media commentators who had been backing leadership contender Peter Dutton, warning the Prime Minister needs to mend bridges with the right of the party and make immediate changes on issues of energy, climate change and immigration.

Speaking to Fairfax Media, 2GB morning host Ray Hadley made clear that Mr Morrison would be expected to behave differently under the new order, calling for a return to the ScoMo of years gone by.

"If he's to reconnect to the conservative electorate, the old Scott has to return," Hadley said.

"He'll need to show he's completely different to Malcolm on three major issues: power supply and cost - i.e. ditch the Paris agreement - and he'll need to reduce immigration almost immediately."

Equally critical, the 2GB host continued, would be the composition of Mr Morrison's cabinet.

"He needs strong people around him, and he needs to sideline the poor performers ... Those three steps could just see him make it a contest of it with [Bill] Shorten."

Read more here. 

And at the very end, we got our guy back.

The Malcolm Turnbull Australians elected, Mr 68 Per Cent Popularity. The outgoing Prime Minister was not wearing his famous leather jacket in body, but it sure clad his spirit.

At his last ever prime ministerial press conference, Turnbull was cheerful, upbeat, and scattered his speech with references to the progressivism of his government, the success of Australia’s multiculturalism and the proud achievement of the same-sex marriage survey.

He had been, he said, a “reforming Liberal Prime Minister”.

Why, he even boasted about his commitment to renewable energy, seen in his establishment of the Snowy Hydro 2.0 scheme.

It was a boast Turnbull had not recently dared make in his party room, or anywhere the dark forces of what he called “the insurgency” might be watching him.

There was nothing about keeping the boats stopped. Nothing about protecting Australia from a Shorten Labor government. Nothing about cutting debt and deficit.

He was liberated, finally, from the talking points of a party that was always ambivalent about his leadership, and which treated him about as stupidly as it’s possible to treat someone of Turnbull’s obvious talents.

Read the full piece here.

Peter Dutton said he nominated for the leadership "because I believed I was a better person and a person of greater strength and integrity to lead the Liberal Party". 

In comments made to ABC, Dutton said he didn't regret the push and was pleased to see Scott Morrison become prime minister.

"I think it's a good day for our country," he said, calling it a "turning point" and "healing point" for the party.

Asked to respond to the latest comments from Malcolm Turnbull, Dutton said: "I would rise above it because there's a lot of emotion and a lot of rewriting of history."

Former prime minister Julia Gillard has tweeted her congratulations to Scott Morrison and commiserations to Malcolm Turnbull. 

Josh Frydenberg and Scott Morrison.Credit: Dominic Lorrimer

Work to do.Credit: Dominic Lorrimer

Scott Morrison confirms his deputy, Josh Frydenberg, will be treasurer in the new government

He is also asked about Malcolm Turnbull's decision to quit the Parliament.

Morrison says Turnbull has "indicated to me that at some time he will be moving away from politics".

"I understand and respect that ... But those arrangements, as yet, have not been activated. And so I am not making any assumptions on that point," he says.

He also says he looks forward to helping out with the byelection in Wentworth. 

Asked about general election timing, Morrison says things will go through the normal process.

"So I don'tthink anybody should be making any plans for any elections any time soon," he says.

Scott Morrison says he will be considering appointments to the cabinet over the weekend and the new ministers will be announced next week.

He says he will make sure the team reflects the conservative and liberal traditions in the Liberal Party. He says it will be a consultative government and declares "we have to work as a team". 

"Today, our team needs to look at the events of this week and how that has impacted on them. They have gone back to their electorates, back to their families, and they are going to listen and they are going to bring things back to us. Where there needs to be changes, they will be made. Where there needs to be continuity, that will be maintained."

Scott Morrison thanks Malcolm Turbull for his service, praising his "noble and professional" work as a parliamentarian. He also praises "rock star" Julie Bishop. He says he will be talking her about what role she would like to play in the government.

Morrison thanks Peter Dutton for his service in the ministry and makes clear he will also have a place in cabinet.

"I look forward, if he so chooses, for him to be playing a role in the government which I intend to lead," he says.

Scott Morrison says he and Josh Frydenberg, as the "next generation", is to bring the Liberal Party back together after it was "bruised and battered" this week.

After outlining broad views about the direction of the party, he says his most pressing responsibility is to help with drought relief. 

"This is our most urgent and pressing need right now," he says.