"SYDNEY — Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was removed from power on Friday by conservative elements of own his center-right Liberal Party unhappy with an attempt to set targets for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by the world’s biggest coal exporter.

Turnbull, 63, was replaced by the country’s treasurer, Scott Morrison, a former tourism industry lobbyist behind Australia’s tough refugee policy that confined thousands of men, women and children to government-run centers in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific island nation of Nauru for years.

“It has been a challenging time to be prime minister, but I am very proud of our record of achievements,” Turnbull said after he was removed. “I have been a reforming Liberal prime minister.”"

A. Odysseus Patrick reports for the Washington Post August 24, 2018. [2]