After a slightly surprising week of polling, in which Newspoll, Essential and Morgan all placed Labor in the range of 53% to 54% after bias adjustment, the BludgerTrack aggregate finds a bounce back to the Coalition from the abysmal depths plumbed after Australia Day. The Coalition is up by 2% on the two-party and primary vote, at the expense of the Greens as well as Labor, and by 10 on the seat projection, with three gains in Victoria, two each in New South Wales and Western Australia, and one each in Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania.
Newspoll is the only one of the three to have supplied new leadership ratings, and since no new figures emerged last week, they weigh heavily upon the model’s current readings. This might be deemed unfortunate, as some of the Newspoll numbers look a little idiosyncratic. In particular, the minus 14% net approval for Bill Shorten is his worst in any published poll since he became leader, and nine points worse than any result this year. It may be that when the dust settles, this result will show up as a correction to the anomalous recent trend in his favour, returning him to his long-term equilibrium just below zero.
Among the many interesting features of the Newspoll result was the personal rating for Tony Abbott, which all but matched the results Newspoll produced a fortnight ago from a sample that gave the Coalition such devastating numbers on voting intention. Indeed, the latest Newspoll runs a very close second to the one a fortnight ago as the worst personal result Abbott has suffered in a poll as prime minister. The trend chart shown on the sidebar to the right accordingly shows no respite in Abbott’s collapse since Australia Day, in strong contrast to voting intention.
TBA,
You are a true liberal in the image of your political heroes.
You have demonstrated on numerous occasions an inability to use logic when making an argument and when all the facts eliminate any opportunity for argument you resort to vile and disgusting personal attacks.
All this suggests that you have a long and promising future in the Liberal Party.
You must be a truly wonderful person.
Well, at least your mother might think so.
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Sir Mad Cyril
Posted Wednesday, February 25, 2015 at 10:54 am | Permalink
Dutton must be auditioning for a stand up comedy gig:
Peter Brent
@mumbletwits
Dutts: “Senator Brandis is one of the most competent legal minds in the country”. ]
I have found in the last 18 months that I have no need to search for comedic entertainment, all I need do is follow the adventures of Captain Barnacle and his mighty galley SS Shipwreck.
Admittedly it’s a tragic comedy and one better viewed from the safety of another country.
My condolences to my fellow Bludgers who are seeing this up close, any comedy writers who are feeling the pressure of competition from News 24 and Sky News and finally satirists who are suffering from the L&NP stealing their best lines.
Please, don’t do anything rash, normality will eventually return.
🙂
People don’t like Bill Shorten and Tony Abbott. Remove one and the other goes too!
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/24/us-saudi-execution-apostasy-idUSKBN0LS0S620150224
!!!
Good morning Dawn Patrollers.
Peter Hartcher continues with the downfall of Abbott who, he says, is clutching at straws to protect his (rabid?) support base. He’s plainly unimpressed with the subject of his prior bromance.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/tony-abbott-clutching-at-straws-in-attempt-to-protect-remaining-support-base-20150225-13owou.html
The government’s GP troubles are not going to go away.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/hundreds-of-thousands-to-pay-much-more-to-see-gp-senate-hearing-told-20150225-13osuf.html
The inevitable is almost upon us.
http://theaimn.com/the-inevitable-is-almost-upon-us/
The attack on Triggs is an Abbott stitch up says The Age editorial.
http://www.theage.com.au/comment/the-age-editorial/the-attack-on-triggs-is-an-abbott-stitchup-20150225-13ogxw.html
Peter Wicks – Brandis screws up yet again.
http://wixxyleaks.com/little-bribes-attorney-general-george-brandis-screws-up-yet-again/
Michelle Grattan wonders why Julie Bishop gave the answer that she did about the offer to Triggs. She contrasts Abbott to Turnbull and Morrison.
https://theconversation.com/when-is-an-offer-not-an-offer-ask-julie-bishop-38045
If this “exclusive” from the Independent Australia has legs it will be a bombshell. Tim Wilson has been promised the job as head of the Human Rights Commission.
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/tim-wilson-already-promised-gillian-triggs-job,7416
Ian Macdonald is great at sexism but so good at reading or writing.
https://newmatilda.com/2015/02/25/ian-macdonald-great-sexism-not-so-good-reading-and-writing
The ridiculing of Abbott now hits the streets.
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/abbottsolutely-hopeless-poster-hits-chippendale-20150225-13osi8.html
Mark Kenny and James Massola look at the leadership tensions as Turnbull breaks ranks.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/tony-abbotts-leadership-facing-renewed-questions-with-malcolm-turnbull-breaking-ranks-20150225-13osve.html
Section 2 . . .
Mark Kenny – Abbott can only attack. “Tony Abbott wants the corrosive leadership chatter eating away at his authority to go away.
But it is Abbott who is feeding the insurrection with aggressive ill-judged performances that reveal a leader incapable of change, and determined not to listen.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/an-aggressive-tony-abbott-fuels-campaign-against-himself-20150225-13ori0.html
Congratulations Tone! You’ve just set the renewable energy industry back 12 years.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/ret-negotiations-set-industry-back-12-years-clean-energy-finance-corporation-20150225-13ok66.html
Stephen Koukoulas – wages growth plumb new lows.
http://thekouk.com/blog/wages-growth-plumbs-record-lows.html#.VO4kk_mUeSo
Another hit to household hip pockets.
http://www.businessspectator.com.au/article/2015/2/25/australian-news/another-hit-household-hip-pockets
The 34 worst things the Liberals did yesterday.
http://www.ellistabletalk.com/2015/02/25/the-twenty-worst-things-the-liberals-did-yesterday-206/
The NSW Police bugging inquiry takes another turn.
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/fresh-feud-in-police-bugging-scandal-as-crime-commission-boss-and-commissioner-at-loggerheads-20150225-13op6w.html
Annastacia cleans out the Campbell stooges.
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/premier-annastacia-palaszczuk-sacks-directorsgeneral-20150225-13oulq.html
ASIC is about to march into the NAB. Sam Dastyari and Wacka Williams are really teaming up well in the Senate inquiry.
http://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/asic-chairman-greg-medcraft-announces-expanded-probe-into-nab-20150225-13om9u.html
Peter FitzSimons – The scandal that happened at Knox.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/royal-commission-into-knox-grammar-sexual-abuse-peter-fitzsimons-retells-a-scandal-20150225-13oh1a.html
The Guardian reports on yesterday’s RC hearing into Knox Grammar.
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/feb/25/former-knox-grammar-teacher-thought-hed-be-fired-after-being-caught-showing-porn
Section 3 . . .
A stream of letters to the SMH Editor say that Abbott’s childish tactics are not fooling anyone.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/smh-letters/pms-childish-tactics-not-fooling-anyone-20150225-13oew4.html
“View from the Street” asks how the Human Rights witch hunt going now?
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/view-from-the-street/view-from-the-street-so-hows-that-human-rights-commission-witchhunt-going-20150225-13oogf.html
Why did the AFP hand over the Bali nine?
http://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2015/02/25/revealed-evidence-afp-handed-bali-nine/
Latika Bourke – Labor and the Greens are leaving it to the Liberals to pile into Peta Credlin.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/view-from-the-street/view-from-the-street-so-hows-that-human-rights-commission-witchhunt-going-20150225-13oogf.html
Norman Abjorensen examines the Credlin/Loughnane axis.
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/comment/credlinloughnane-nexus-fails-history-test-20150225-13ob7e.html
Bill Heffernan goes right off over the proposal to charge for parking at Parliament House.
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/public-service/paid-parking-is-bullshit-says-liberal-senator-bill-heffernan-20150225-13o2ze.html
The CPSU is taking the fight right up to Abetz. It’s going to get very willing by the looks of it.
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/public-service/employment-public-servants-plan-to-get-in-the-face-of-their-minister-eric-abetz-with-cpsu-action-20150225-13ocui.html
How employers are tricking you into paying you less.
http://thenewdaily.com.au/money/2015/02/25/sham-contracts/
Mark Latham asks just what IS it about the Liberals and servants?
http://www.afr.com/p/opinion/liberals_take_it_out_on_the_servants_fvcdcSczyAeDhegAkhBDDP
I don’t think Peter Martin is impressed with the new head of Treasury.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/new-treasury-boss-john-fraser-defends-austerity-and-ronald-reagan-20150225-13ojne.html
Section 4 . . .
Shane Warne’s old team mates have had enough of him.
http://thenewdaily.com.au/sport/2015/02/25/warne-lehmann-clarke-world-cup/
Investigations into Cliff Richard are widened.
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/feb/25/sir-cliff-richard-investigation-increasing-in-size-says-police-chief
Andrew Dyson – just another day for Peta.
Ron Tandberg and our bellicose leader.
Mark Knight shows us how certain government ministers see thing.
David Pope and Morrison’s charm offensive. He’s not fooled.
David Rowe has Turnbull rejoicing over the government’s current problems.
Abbott & Hockey blow the Xenophobia Tax dog whistle.
So they instigate the Tax everyone loves , the tax someone else pays.
Talk about useless, how will a tax of $10,000 ( I think ) on a purchase of $1.5 million make one jot of difference to restricting price rises.
Oh & if by some chance it does work, end result is reduction in number of apartments built we will see a downturn in the building industry, maybe that’s the Liberal plan, we destroyed the car industry lets see what we can do to the Housing industry.
If you ask how much the Tax will raise they can’t tell you because they can’t answer how many of them terrible Chinese foreigner buy apartments / houses
Keep blowing that whistle only 8% behind in the polls.
BK:
[ The attack on Triggs is an Abbott stitch up says The Age editorial.
http://www.theage.com.au/comment/the-age-editorial/the-attack-on-triggs-is-an-abbott-stitchup-20150225-13ogxw.html ]
Thanks as always BK.
The searing tone of that editorial, and the accusations it levels, are staggering.
As others have said, the idea of the charge is not to act as a ‘price signal’, but to be a revenue source for FIRB to beef up their compliance monitoring for the existing rules relating to foreign purchases of housing.
If there is a lot of flouting of the rules then perhaps adequate compliance enforcement will mean some dodgy players are forced out of the market.
I don’t have an opinion on whether this is a good thing or not, or if this is the right way to go about it … I don’t know that portraying it as a ‘dog whistle’ is entirely fair.
I don’t have much time for Kelly O’Dwyer, but when I have seen her speak on this issue she has seemed reasonably rational.
Easy to avoid today’s Daily ToiletPaper with the staple recurring themes on show.
Union/ALP bashing
Jihadis
Welfare bludgers
Normal service has resumed
Thanks BK. Abbott is in the death spiral. These days I can talk openly about his poor government management to people I know who are conservative and they just shrug their shoulders. They know he has been a disaster.
Have a good day all. If I leave now I can avoid the worst of the traffic jams caused by the farcical traffic arrangements for the Clipsal or “that damn race” as it is regarded in Adelaide’s eastern half of the city.
don @ 11
That editorial is scathing. Extraordinary these days.
And thanks BK – always look forward to the Dawn Patrol.
Last October, Peta Credlin attended a regular meeting of Liberal PR staffers.
Nikki Savva in today’s SmearStralian helpfully tells us what she said to them.
[According to ministers who had received a full account of the meeting from their staff, Peta Credlin was more pointed than aggressive.
Credlin told the meeting there was too much gossiping. Credlin warned she and the Prime Minister’s Office knew which of them, as well as which of their bosses, were talking to the media. No names were mentioned, so the immediate effect was to ignite speculation about which ministers were in the firing line.
The reason the PMO knew who was talking was because the journalists they spoke to wanted to be friends with the PMO more than they wanted to be friends with them, Credlin said. Ministers took this to mean that journalists were snitching or bartering in order to extract information. Imagine that.
According to ministers, Credlin told staff that if people did not like their jobs, or if they complained or gossiped too much, word would get back to the Prime Minister, and they would end up on the backbench.
She also told staff it was their job to control their bosses. There followed more directions about media appearances, particularly on the ABC’s Q&A, which press secretaries were told required special clearance from central command before anybody could appear on it.
Not everybody is able to go to every meeting, but after this one, an email went out from the PMO chiding the absentees. If the chief of staff could take the time to attend, so should they.]
And some more helpful advice from Niiki Savva, invoking Rupert and JWH
[Philip Higginson, who used to be mates with the Prime Minister until they fell out apparently before Christmas, sent his resignation letter on Sunday, citing lack of transparency and the conflict of having the federal director’s wife as the Prime Minister’s chief of staff. It was leaked on Monday and in the papers on Tuesday.
It was deja vu all over again. The last time it happened, for exactly the same reasons, with the same office bearer, was in November 2010 when I reported on the resignation of the then federal treasurer, Michael Yabsley. Yabsley told friends when he raised his concerns about the conflict with Abbott, he was told to get stuffed. This time, despite the fact that job is notoriously difficult to fill, despite the fact he was forced to waste another day talking about his chief of staff, Abbott dismissed the Higginson episode as a “storm in a teacup”. That was not the view of his colleagues, including another former party treasurer, Malcolm Turnbull.
It seems almost everyone is expendable or replaceable. Except the chief of staff. He will not sack her, nor does he want her to resign. That is one high-profile woman who is safe in her job for as long as Abbott is safe in his, no matter what advice privately or publicly or from whom, whether it be Rupert Murdoch or John Howard. As if they would know anything about politics or survival.]
A post Abbott Liberal party is going to be interesting.
Firstly, it’s not just Abbott who will go. The backbench want to see the backs of people like Joe Hockey and Credlin as well.
A change of leadership always sees a reshuffle, but it’s highly probable – indeed, necessary – that this one be more comprehensive than usual.
Secondly, the parliamentary party will have to be de-Credlinated. MPs have had staff imposed on them by Credlin, and in most cases will find it uncomfortable to keep these people around if Credlin is tossed.
Potentially, then, we’ll have a disgruntled former PM, a disgruntled former Treasurer (known for his sense of entitlement and a world class whinger), a disgruntled former CoS, several disgruntled former Ministers, and a raft of disgruntled ex staffers.
Many of these will write books. Some of them will get jobs in the media. All of them will be desperate to prove that anything that happened wasn’t their fault, to correct the record anytime it’s suggested that something they were involved in might have been done in a better way, and to feel personally aggrieved every time any policy they were involved with gets dumped.
Of course, if Abbott decides he wants to be PM again and takes his wrecking ball approach in an effort to try and achieve this, the situation will be even worse for the Liberals, (particularly if Malcolm is the leader and tries to introduce his reasonable approach to matters dear to the Nationals).
The Rudd-Gillard-Rudd transitions will seem smooth in comparison.
The media are more than happy to assist in anything that will destroy Labor, hence frenzied promotion of Rudd when Gillard was PM. If/when Abbott get usurped by someone else in the party as PM, his desire for revenge will be almost Biblical in proportions. The problem for him is that the media will, unlike with Labor, close ranks behind the new Liberal leader and shut Tony and friends out. Tony will possibly be airbrushed from history by the likes of the ABC, Murdoch and Fairfax.
LNP is looking shaking, the solution is to order more Australians to go overseas and put their body in harms way.
Linking Indonesian executions to foreign aid is how he started turning things around, this increase in deployments (with NZ) thats upcoming is the current step. Whats next…
National Security does work for them,i hope voters start to workout what hes doing before more people die for the LNP.
Actually, the extra charge ($5000) for foreigners to invest in Australian property should be considered nationalistic as well.
Let’s pretend for a moment that Scott “Stop the Bludgers” Morrison becomes Treasurer with this new head of Treasury to advise him – a man carefully selected to demonise any public debt. I am afraid that the economy and the community will go from bad to worse.
[The new head of Australia’s Treasury is a fan of the Ronald Reagan tax cuts in the US, believes austerity has had a bad press and is wary about using government spending to stimulate the economy.]
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/new-treasury-boss-john-fraser-defends-austerity-and-ronald-reagan-20150225-13ojne.html
By the time they are thrown out of office, the Abbott Coalition will have placed so many stooges in positions of power that it will be a long time before the country can recover.
I note that Anastacia is trying to weed out Campbell’s placements.
Yesterday it was eeeevil “foreigners” buying “our house”. Today Tones rolls out the eeeevil foreign food.
Morning bludgers
The Age editorial really goes to town on Abbott and his govt.
I watched Richo on Sky last night. (I know Labor rat and all). But he was very blunt about the ongoing prospects of this govt. He said wtte that he has observed many govts over the past 40 years, and he has seen nothing like this one
Abbott: “Border protection means bio-security as well.” Turn back those damned foreign fruits.
Abbott has been “counselled” overnight and has changed his responses on the children in detention and the foreign fruits.
zoomster
[The Rudd-Gillard-Rudd transitions will seem smooth in comparison. ]
Unlike many here, I do not want Abbott to stay just because keeping him is supposedly the best thing for Labor. He’s a terrible PM, he’s an embarrassment to the country, and every day he’s still there is another day he’s been able to enjoy the privilege and perks of the top job, which he’s not up to and doesn’t deserve. So I want the Libs to kick him out at the earliest possible opportunity. And as you’ve pointed out, we can be rid of Abbott and then watch the Libs implode in the aftermath for good measure.
bug1
It’s a very thin line between nationalism & racism.
It may well lie in the eye of the beholder
Most Australians seem to support the Tax on Forigners … if ABC news viewers are anything to go by, complaining tax not high enough.
The way the government plays this is pure racism, if they wanted to reinforce the existing forign ownership regulation they could have achieved it by quietly providing the regulatory co-ordination funding
But there are NO votes to be gained this way
Expect the usual silence from Shortnen… don’t blow the poll lead whatever you do.
By the time Bill wakes up the election will be over
[Of course, if Abbott decides he wants to be PM again and takes his wrecking ball approach in an effort to try and achieve this, the situation will be even worse for the Liberals]
If you look back on Abbott’s history, he has always been a maverick with a penchant for speaking his mind.
When he was a backbencher or a lowly minister, this was less of an issue, especially (as Keating so memorably put it) Abbott was always considered the Libs’ resident nutter.
However, he is now a soon-to-be-former Prime Minister. And as soon as he is “former” his every utterance will take on a special significance it hasn’t previously.
No more “resident nutter” free passes – he has to keep his trap shut or it will be a death by a thousand cuts for even the absolute best and well-regarded leadership team the Libs can put together.
Hand up all those people who think Abbott can sit quietly on the back bench and keep his trap shut … {crickets}
If Abbott is removed as leader I think he’ll just resign from Parliament. There’d be no point staying on as there’s no way the party would go back to him. There can be no illusion, as there was (arguably) with Rudd that returning to him could/would improve the party’s stocks.
chinda63
I think it was Bushfire Bill sometime ago suggesting that Abbott had gone off the reservation. So if he is dumped, it only stands to reason that he will truly go loco!
It is interesting that we’re not getting a swathe of “if
Abbott goes, what next?” articles from the media, particularly given that they’ve basically accepted he’s gone.
A few on what Turnbull might be like as PM, sure, but they’ve been focussed on the man, not the government.
Itep
Abbott and reality haven’t really ever been close. He is also basically unemployable outside of Parliament and he’s very attached to his pay check.
That said, a free range Abbott might be worse for the Liberals than one who’s playing under the supervision of the parliamentary party.
Perhaps someone will take pity on Abbott and offer him an “inducement” to move on, preferably out of the spotlight. But what would suit him? He’s hardly ambassador quality 😆
zoomster
The journo who reported in the Oz over weekend re Abbott suggesting unilateral invasion of Iraq, was interviewed by Richo last night. He gave a picture of a man being controlled by Credlin. It is all very strange indeed
I’m not sure about that, ltep.
Abbott has effectively done nothing but politics his whole life. When he was at uni (even when he went over to the UK) it was mostly about student politics.
When he was working as a journo, he was heavily involved in the machinations of the Liberal Party.
Now he’s in the parliament, he’s doing what he’s always wanted to do. I can’t imagine him stepping away from it, even after the comedown of losing the Prime Ministership. He needs to be in the thick of it and outside of the parliament he can’t be.
Also, he thrives on conflict – actually, his personality type seems to indicate he NEEDS it. The bully pulpit of politics suits him down to the ground. I think if he’s in a position to be able to argue with people every day, he doesn’t much care if he’s PM or a backbencher.
As long as he gets to argue and feed of the public teat, he’s a happy chappy.
*off.
Well, this is one solution for “what to do with Tony”.
[Doctor plans to graft a living person’s head on to a donor body using procedures he believes will soon be ready,
Sergio Canavero, a doctor in Turin, Italy, has drawn up plans to graft a living person’s head on to a donor body and claims the procedures needed to carry out the operation are not far off.
Canavero hopes to assemble a team to explore the radical surgery in a project he is due to launch at a meeting for neurological surgeons in Maryland this June.
He has claimed for years that medical science has advanced to the point that a full body transplant is plausible, but the proposal has caused raised eyebrows, horror and profound disbelief in other surgeons.]
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/feb/25/first-full-body-transplant-two-years-away-surgeon-claim
PBers shouldn’t underestimate how good Textor is at wedging & refining his message to shore up marginal bogan vote.
Wait til Tony goes to NZ & performs only we can save Western Civilisation act, another 2 points in the poll, if that happens the party revolt will evaporate
There is a work-a-day article by PvO in today’s ‘The Australian’ which includes a question that PvO tried to ask but was guillotined by Simkins.
It was about a meeting attended by Abbott, the US Ambassador and the Sec of Defence.
The implication is that it was at this meeting that Abbott made his ill-fated suggestion to mount up and charge ISIL.
A second article by Sheridan is one of his best.
He has sort of given up on Abbott and systematically pulls apart most of the terrism FUD.
You know when Sheridan spends most of an article, wtte, Tony, don’t be silly, you know that the Gotterdammerung is just around the corner.
The article by Sheridan is a must read, IMHO.
Morning all.
I agree with Socrates that these days you can speak openly about how appalling the govt is and Abbott in particular and get no disagreement in return. Yesterday at a meeting I was at someone was openly critical of Abbott and even Barnett’s govt, and there were nods and mocking jokes around the table. People just want Abbott gone.
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Unlike many here, I do not want Abbott to stay just because keeping him is supposedly the best thing for Labor. He’s a terrible PM, he’s an embarrassment to the country, and every day he’s still there is another day he’s been able to enjoy the privilege and perks of the top job, which he’s not up to and doesn’t deserve. So I want the Libs to kick him out at the earliest possible opportunity.
]
Same here. The sooner he is gone the better as far as I’m concerned. I’ve now given up caring what effect his removal has on Labors electoral stocks.
Abbott will only resign from parliament if he has a well paying job to resign to.
And that’s something else that annoys me because it’ll likely be another well paid, taxpayer funded job. People like him who spend their entire lives scunging off taxpayers give nothing back to the people and the country that supported them. And he has the temerity to amp the rhetoric about people receiving income support.
triton@28
[Unlike many here, I do not want Abbott to stay just because keeping him is supposedly the best thing for Labor. ]
Agree 100% with this. we are nearing an inflexion point in the transition to renewables which is vital for our economy, jobs, and attacking the climate change issue.
e.g. from BK with thanks
[Congratulations Tone! You’ve just set the renewable energy industry back 12 years.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/ret-negotiations-set-industry-back-12-years-clean-energy-finance-corporation-20150225-13ok66.html%5D
We can’t afford this shit from Abbott.
These words form Savva on Credlin are telling:
[That is one high-profile woman who is safe in her job for as long as Abbott is safe in his, no matter what advice privately or publicly or from whom, whether it be Rupert Murdoch or John Howard]
So she reckons that a US media mogul has some sort of divine right to interfere in the affairs of the Australian government.
I have always wanted Abbott gone asap. I am now boring my friends and family reminding them of how long ago (at least 2011) I thought he was not personally fit to be PM. I kept saying that he reminded of no one so much as Mark Latham imploding after the 2004 election.
It is not just political – Abbott as PM of Australia is dangerous and needs to go now.
[That is one high-profile woman who is safe in her job for as long as Abbott is safe in his, no matter what advice privately or publicly or from whom, whether it be Rupert Murdoch or John Howard]
Which is why I’ve said that if Murdoch and his newspapers really want Credlin gone they’d be campaigning for Abbott to be replaced. That was she really will be gone.
[lizzie
Posted Thursday, February 26, 2015 at 8:45 am | PERMALINK
Perhaps someone will take pity on Abbott and offer him an “inducement” to move on, preferably out of the spotlight. But what would suit him? He’s hardly ambassador quality :lol:]
Ambassador to North Korea would be a suitable posting. It would hardly matter what he said while there as the regime ignores any and all criticism.
What is the headline of Sheridan’s article in the GG? From time to time, when they leave their partisan hat at home, they can write well.