Good Morning Australia! - Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will be sworn as early as today, which might come as a surprise to people who went to bed early last night - More doors are shutting in Europe - Deadly gunfire erupts on an American college campus - And more in your post-Tony CareerSpot AM News Briefs:

That was sudden.  You know how Tony Abbott was the Prime Minister yesterday?  'Funny thing happened.  The onion-loving, budgie-smuggling Tory who rose to PM by portraying the Labor government as "unstable", has himself been undone by internal strife over his performance and a leadership challenge led by his Liberal rival Malcolm Turnbull, who becomes Prime Minister - perhaps as early as today.  Perhaps sealing his fate, Abbott's own deputy Julie Bishop switched to Turnbull's side, and the final vote was 54-44.  Julie Bishop was reconfirmed as Liberal deputy leader by an even more convincing 70-30 vote, indicating she might be more popular than either of the men.

PM designate Malcolm Turnbull seems to want to smooth the abrasiveness that characterized Abbott's government.  He says the PM should be the "first among equals" and not treated as a president.  Whereas Abbott's message was "fear the boats, fear the terrorists", Turnbull declared "there was never a more exciting time to be Australian", and embraced a changing world.  "We can't be defensive, we can't future-proof ourselves," he said, "We have to recognize that the disruption that we see driven by technology, the volatility in change is our friend if we are agile and smart enough to take advantage of it."

Turnbull also supports same sex marriage, more robust action on climate change, and is expected to have more women in his cabinet when the shuffle takes place later in the week.  He is also a prominent figure in the Australian Republic Movement, which seeks to end Oz's ties to the British monarchy.  Now, he has a chance to turn years of talk and staking out policy positions into action.

Abbott served one year, 361 days as PM - the shortest term since Harold Holt.  But according to Fairfax Media, he'll still get a big, fat, juicy retirement package for being what some would consider to be a failed PM.

Anyway..

On the day that European Union interior ministers held talks on the refugee crisis, Austria, Slovakia, and the Netherlands announced they would tighten controls in response to the Refugee Crisis.  They followed Germany, which hours earlier had imposed checks on its border with Austria.  Hungary completed its border blockade on the Serbian frontier early, rolling a shipping container covered with razor wire into place to fill the last section.  This means that Middle Eastern and African refugees are now blocked at what had been their front door into the European Union. 

Egypt's Prime Minister is apologizing for the blunder that led to security forces killing twelve people, including eight tourists from Mexico.  The group did have permission to travel to the Western Desert, but for some reason entered a restricted area where the military was tracking Islamic State terrorists near the border with lawless Libya.  Ten Mexicans and Egyptians were injured in the operation.

Thai police say a prime suspect in last month's bombing at the Erawan shrine has fled to Turkey.

When an Elephant says, "You shall not pass," it generally means you shall not pass.

While America is still not admitting it has a gun problem, police in Mississippi are looking for the 45-year old college professor who allegedly murdered his girlfriend and a colleague at Delta State University.  Killed was professor Ethan Schmidt, who specialized in Indian and Colonial American History.  Police identify the gunman as geography professor Shannon Lamb.  The woman is not yet identified.  The campus was locked down and classes were cancelled - police say no students were involved in the mayhem.

Argentina is acknowledging that its soldiers were subjected to abuse and torture by their own superiors during the 1982 Falklands War against Britain.  Argentina at the time was ruled by a military junta.  Soldiers from that ill-fated confrontation have long complained that they were poorly equipped and beaten if they left their posts to look for food.  The Argentine defeat in the Falklands War helped bring down the brutal military government which had already lost popular support.

Everyone loves Baby Indian Rhinos!  At Berlin's Tierpark Zoo.