Editorials, Politics

Editorial – Tony Abbott’s Prime Ministerial Obituary

Never accepted and never going to be

Rightly or wrongly, the public never warmed to Tony Abbott and were never going to. His unpopularity was simply terminal. Even his own party never really accepted him as leader. There is even the famous rumour that senior Liberals told an ambitious Abbott during the Howard years, ‘sorry Tony, we just don’t see you as Prime Minister material’. With that, politics was never going to end up being kind to Abbott as Prime Minister – and it wasn’t.

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Events

About the Refugee Who Set Himself on Fire

The Earth is finally rid of this abomination.

Ali Jaffari was no plain ‘refugee who set himself on fire’. He was a convicted child sex offender and child pornography collector. He also famously weaselled his way out of a further child sex offence charge when the Magistrate (Magistrate Ron Saines) said it was simply a matter of ‘cultural differences’:

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Politics

Abbott Now Apparently Not Academic Enough

News.com.au loves a good Abbott bashing and this time managed to find Monash University arts professor James Walter to join the party:

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Politics

Time Some Conservatives Took a Cold Shower

First up, I don’t like the fact that Malcolm Turnbull has replaced Tony Abbott.

However, long term Liberal voters claiming that they would now vote for Shorten and Labor (yes, there are quite a few) need to take a cold shower. Shorten? The man who, among countless many other things:

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Politics

Who’s Who in the Leadership Coup

If you’re inclined to give your local Liberal member some of your thoughts over the coup, The Australian has named names. If you don’t have a subscription, then the list will most certainly be published in tomorrow’s hard copy edition.