And as for him defending all those poor people against the CSG industry.....

Well of course it wouldn't be because he has huge land holdings and the value of them might drop ....

Would it?

ffs womble. the last gov't was an embarrassment thats why they LOST the election

You have at nearly 3 years to wait for next election. so suck on that!

Yes womble of course he has done some good for charities individuals etc. Unfortunately a lot of it is undone by his ramping up the hate etc, toward anyone he disagrees with... regardless of what side of politics he sides with. imo.

But he's just another of the many right wing shocks.

Interesting that there is no left wing shock jocks who preach hateful venom to equal amounts that our airwaves are bombarded with the right wing ones.

Spot on, Womble.

This government has forfeited the right to govern with its unmitigated and never-ending evil. The monk has gotta be junked for all time.

Why doesn't Abbott call an election now?

Because he knows the Australian people now realise that they were hoodwinked into voting him in.

He is a gutless prime minister ... the most gutless leader any country in the world has ever had.

This is not just a BAD government.

This is a BAD BAD BAD BAD government.

In fact, I would argue that this is the BADDEST BADDEST BADDEST BADDEST government in the history of BAD governments. So BAD, in fact, that it makes all other BAD governments look a lot less BAD in comparison.

Bring on the election now, so that the Australian people can:

J U N K   t h e  M O N K

Tony Abbott's ALP criticism could affect US links
http://www.smh.com .au

October 28, 2013
David Wroe

Tony Abbott's use of a Washington Post interview to brand his Labor predecessors as ''wacko'' and ''embarrassing'' could set back his working relationship with the Obama adminstration, a leading US commentator says.

Perhaps you can chalk it up to a rookie mistake. But it is a pretty big one.

Norman Ornstein, an author and political scientist with the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute, said he ''winced'' when he read the interview in which Mr Abbott put the boot into the Rudd-Gillard government in unusually strong language for a foreign interview.

''It really does violate a basic principle of diplomacy to drag in your domestic politics when you go abroad,'' Dr Ornstein said. ''It certainly can't help in building a bond of any sort with President Obama to rip into a party, government and - at least implicitly - leader, with whom Obama has worked so closely.


''Perhaps you can chalk it up to a rookie mistake. But it is a pretty big one.''

Politicians around the world typically refrain from engaging in fierce domestic political argument when they are speaking to an overseas audience.

Dr Ornstein, a resident scholar at the AEI - one of Washington's oldest think tanks - was one of Foreign Policy magazine's 100 ''top global thinkers'' in 2012.

In the interview, Mr Abbott told The Washington Post that the former Labor government's conduct was ''a circus'' and was ''scandalously wasteful''.

''It was an embarrassing spectacle and I think Australians are relieved they are gone,'' he said.

Asked about Labor's plan to extend fibre to every household under the national broadband network, Mr Abbott said: ''Welcome to the wonderful, wacko world of the former government.''

Julia Gillard in particular forged what observers say was a warm and constructive relationship with Mr Obama, which included the deal to station US marines in Darwin. She was one of just 12 world leaders whose calls Mr Obama returned personally after they had called to congratulate him on his 2012 re-election.

Former diplomat and senior public servant John Menadue said it remained to be seen whether Mr Abbott could ''make the transition from a critic in opposition and an attack dog to a responsible and constructive prime minister''.

In 2007, then prime minister John Howard caused an international stir when he said al-Qaeda in Iraq would be praying for an Obama victory in the presidential race - a criticism of Mr Obama's plan to bring US troops home from Iraq.

Meanwhile, the White House has refused to comment on - or rule out - whether the US National Security Agency has ever tapped the phones of any Australian prime minister.

In the wake of revelations that the NSA may have bugged German Chancellor Angela Merkel's mobile phone, Fairfax Media asked the US government whether it could rule out ever bugging Australian leaders.

National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said: ''We are not going to comment publicly on every specific alleged intelligence activity, and as a matter of policy we have made clear that the United States gathers foreign intelligence of the type gathered by all nations.''

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/tony-abbotts-alp-criticism-could-affect-us-links-20131027-2w9lv.html#ixzz2j1uh8AF4

They shouldn't let ABBOTT out without a note.

F/F/S   What an embarrassment he is, he can't step out of his panic room at Liberal HQ  without shooting his mouth off.

He doesn't even realize HE WON THE ELECTION......his mind is still on Labor and is not governing the country LIKE AN ADULT.

Bring on the DD  and we can kick this drop kick out.

another election now afl ... you guys sure don't learn


the NEW Labor election scenario

billy bob shorten stands on the dias ... and announces the labor PLAN to the nation ...

"Labor are proudly going to re-introduce Julia Gillard's co2 tax/trade plan if we are re-elected"

... yeah .. that'll fly 

Nothing to say about our PM making an ar  se of himself and our country internationally ..i notice.


Nice try at diversion from the article i posted...

You must have picked that tactic up from the Liberal play-book.

in denial last 3 years

oh ok then after accusing him of lying for the last xx(insert own value) amount of years, you now tip the bucket on him for telling the TRUTH? wtf?  you are one special guy AFL
methinks Obama wouldn't give a FF about TA's ramblings in light of his own scandals , just the media making a mountain out of molehill once again

Well there's another SORRY TOUR he has to go to apologize for.

How many International Presidents and PM's has he offended now.

UMM let's count them.....

Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan, and The USA President


Is there any one left for him to insult????


What an IDIOT he is.

Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan, and The USA President

a list goody ... let me see

indonesia - new trade & eductation & asylum seeker plan - nailed
malaysia - new trade & eductation & asylum seeker plan - nailed
japan - new trade & eductation & asylum seeker plan - nailed

the usa - yes you can keep pine gap & darwin training facilities - but be aware - we didn't think too much of the dysfunctional gillard labor govt

... things are going pretty good really ... you would have to agree afl

nice reply Thebas you NAILED IT

The Prime Minister’s (JULIA GILLARD) unwelcome advice to world leaders to follow “the Australian way” is embarrassing.

The head of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso says Europe is “not going to take lessons and lectures from anybody”.  Julia Gillard’s letter to G20 delegates on why they should get their economies in order backfired when European leaders said it contained no new ideas.


Now that was a good way to get them all onside ??

When it comes to offending other leaders and the people that elected them

Abbott holds the record by streets.

In 2 months?????

Wow...... at this rate there wont be anyone or country  left for him to offend.

actually Gillard wasn't elected leader, she got over the line with conservative votes in Lyne and New England when their elected representatives decided to sh1t on them (and then run before a chance of a square up as they knew a slaughter was a certainty), check most conservative electorates in the country

Abbott's time as PM will be defined as THE SORRY YEARS

With him SORRY for the Leaders and People he offended, and him conducing more SORRY TOURS to apologize.

And The people in Australia SORRY THEY ELECTED HIM.

Don't worry he'll get around to offending the rest of mankind

by the end of the year at this rate.

wrong smiley
you are funny AFL