Federal Election needed now: Scott
BREAKING: Federal Member for Maranoa Bruce Scott called it early, and Julia Gillard has remained our prime minister, after a leadership vote at Parliament House resulted in a "no contest" supporting our current leader.
"Call it political intuition - an early call of the board, that Prime Minister Gillard will not be challenged and will remain leader," Mr Scott told the Daily News as the leadership vote got under way.
Now it has been announced Ms Gillard remains leader, Mr Scott said the next thing she should do is "get into the car and head straight to government house" to call a general election.
"September is too far away," he said.
"There's a lack of confidence across the length and breadth of Australia that needs to be fixed now.
"The small business sector is the driver of our economy and farmers - who produce our food for our nation and continue to export 60% of our production - they want certainty about the direction our government is taking the country in and we're not seeing any of that.
"All we're seeing is members of the Labor Party more interested in their own jobs and not about jobs of millions of Australians that they're meant to be leading."
Read more about the local reaction to the leadership vote in tomorrow's Daily News.
