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Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott Cheap Nike Air Max 1 Shoes , center, surrounded by supporters, walks to a meeting to face a potential leadership challenge Monday Cheap Nike Air Max 95 Shoes , Feb. 9, 2015. Beleaguered Prime Minister Abbott survived an internal government challenge to his leadership on Monday, despite a revolt by dozens of colleagues that leaves him politically damaged.(AP PhotoAndrew Taylor)
Australia's beleaguered Prime Minister Tony Abbott survived an internal government challenge to his leadership on Monday Cheap Nike Air Max 90 Shoes , despite a revolt by dozens of colleagues that leaves him politically damaged.

A meeting of lawmakers in the ruling conservative Liberal Party voted 61 to 39 to reject a motion that called for a ballot for party leader and deputy, party whip Philip Ruddock reported after the brief meeting.

Abbott needed a stronger show of support from his colleagues to ward off potential future challenges if the government continues to endure sagging approval ratings in opinion polls.

But he said later that he should stay in charge of the government until voters decide his fate in elections next year.

"We want to end the disunity and the uncertainty which destroyed two Labor governments and give you the good government that you deserve," Abbott said in a video statement Cheap Nike Air Max Shoes , referring to the center-left Labor Party that dumped prime ministers in similar internal struggles in 2010 and 2013.

"We think that when you elect a government, when you elect a prime minister, you deserve to keep that government and that prime minister until you have a chance to change your mind Cheap Air Max 1 Shoes ," he added.

The challenge showed that 39 of 102 Liberal lawmakers wanted a change at the helm, even though no one had officially announced he or she was willing to stand against Abbott.

It came halfway through Abbott's first 3-year term as prime minister. His party has never dumped a first-term prime minister.

The challenge to Abbott's leadership — a "spill motion" that declares the party leadership open to any candidates in a ballot — was triggered by disgruntled government lawmakers last week and was to be discussed Tuesday at the year's first scheduled Liberal Party meeting.

But Abbott on Sunday arranged a special meeting for Monday morning, leaving some lawmakers scrambling to book earlier flights to Canberra Cheap Air Max 95 Shoes , and giving his opponents less time to garner support to topple him.

The internal tussle came as an opinion poll published in The Australian newspaper on Monday showed that Abbott's popularity had reached its lowest point in his five years as party leader.

The poll found that only 24 percent of respondents were satisfied with the prime minister's performance while 68 percent were dissatisfied.

His conservative coalition government lagged behind the Labor opposition with 43 percent of respondents favoring the government and 57 percent supporting Labor.

The poll was based on a nationwide, random telephone survey over the weekend of 1,178 voters. It has a margin of error of 3 percentage points.

If the motion had passed Monday Cheap Air Max 90 Shoes , the positions of prime minister and his deputy, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, would have been declared open. There would then have been secret ballots of Liberal Party lawmakers later Monday to either return Abbott and Bishop or replace them.

Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull Cheap Air Max Shoes , who led the party in opposition until he lost by a single vote to the more conservative Abbott in a 2009 leadership ballot, is touted as the favorite to replace the prime minister if there is another challenge.

Abbott has come under increasing criticism from some members of his own party — which is conservative despite its name — over the government's sagging approval ratings. Polls have slumped since May, when the government's first annual budget was widely criticized as being toughest on the poor and most vulnerable.

Recently Cheap Nike Air Max 1 Black , he drew widespread criticism by making Queen Elizabeth II's 93-year-old husband, Prince Philip, an Australian knight on Australia's national day. Many saw it as an insult to worthy Australians.

Public dislike of Abbott has been blamed in part for big election losses for conservative governments in Victoria state in November and Queensland state last month.

CANBERRA， June 6 (Xinhua) -- Australian motorists are filling up for less in 2016， after a report found that petrol prices were at low levels not seen since 1999.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) found that prices across the nation were at 17-year lows， with the average cost of filling up the car coming in at 81.4 U.S. cents per liter throughout the March 2016 quarter -- almost 10 cents per liter cheaper than the previous quarter.

Rod Sims， chairman of the ACCC， said a number of factors were influencing petrol prices in Australia， including a drop in crude oil prices and closer regulation by the retail watchdog.

"Motorists benefited from the lowest quarterly petrol prices in inflation adjusted terms since 1999，" Sims said in a statement released on Monday.

"The low petrol prices were due to two main influences: firstly， crude oil prices and international refined petrol prices in inflation adjusted terms fell to lows not seen since 2002 and 2008， respectively."

"Secondly， gross retail margins decreased in the quarter. The ACCC believed that retail margins were unreasonably high in the second half of 2015 and wrote to the major petrol retailers in early February 2016 seeking an explanation for the high retail margins."

Sydney was the cheapest major city for motorists to fill up in， with an average March quarter price of 79.2 U.S. cents， while the nation's capital， Canberra， and Tasmania's capital city Hobart were the most expensive -- with motorists paying up to 89.6 cents per liter throughout the first quarter of 2016.

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