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Tony Abbott survives Liberal leadership vote 61 - 39.
Time to call it a day.
What happened?
Everyone is very busy getting back to work for Australia:
The meeting was over relatively quickly and people have been terribly polite about each other since.
As one MP said, it was about the what not the who.
Everyone is talking about giving Mr Abbott time and Mr Abbott is promising faithfully to be more consultative.
Labor, meanwhile, is road testing lines about Malcolm Turnbull while not so secretly being delighted that the government might experience a fresh outbreak of leadership speculation and that Mr Abbott is still prime minister. He works well for the Opposition.
Where is everything going now?
Tony Abbott remains the Prime Minister. But 39 of 101 MPs basically cast a vote of no confidence in him this morning.
This means either Mr Abbott will turn things around for the government and restore the faith of his backbench or Mr Abbott will not turn things around and the discontent will grow until we find ourselves back here some time in the future.
Junior minister Jamie Briggs is speaking to Sky News.
"We can absolutely win this election," he says.
"[MPs] want the Prime Minister to improve, they want the government to improve."
Mr Briggs says "we have only talked about ourselves" for the past few weeks and "the Australian people are sick of it".
Texts from Julie.
The Opposition rehearsed its lines for a possible Malcolm Turnbull prime ministership in Question Time.
In this piece Chris Johnson looks at what that would mean for Labor (should it ever come to pass).
Liberal Party HQ has been busy while all this was going on.
It has emailed pretty much anyone whose email address it holds with a personalised message from the Prime Minister assuring the reader that the nasty leadership business is all over.
In the end it all comes to nothing.
The motion to suspend standing orders is defeated 87 to 54.
That's it for Question Time today.