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Australian Prime Minister and marriage equality opponent Tony Abbott looks set to lose his position.

Prime Minister Abbott received a request for a party room ballot for the leadership of the Liberal party from Malcolm Turnbull.

Mr Turnbull resigned from cabinet and told a press conference that he believed Tony Abbott was not capable of winning the next federal election and that the electorate has “made up their minds about Mr Abbott’s leadership”

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Mr Turnbull is a well known supporter of marriage equality, a reform which Mr Abbott had long opposed.

 Article | Levi Joule.

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