“He knows they cannot win on the merits of their argument,” explains Wolfson, noting that Australians already overwhelmingly back gay marriage, “so they have to make the debate about something else.” That’s why Abbott announced that this was about political correctness and freedom of speech rather than gay marriage.
Source: Tony Abbott is ripping his anti-gay marriage strategy out of the US playbook
“Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it,” is a near perfect description of what is going on inside the Liberal party right now. They don’t just appear to be disunited and dysfunctional, in reality, they are all of that. No matter how hard Malcolm Turnbull tries to convince us that…
Source: Dysfunction and Disunity: The End is Nigh – » The Australian Independent Media Network
The realists among us know many things, not least of all that even though we’re all expendable, some of us are more expendable than others. Mathew Kenneally explains. It will be hard for him to accept, but it is a reality. Tony Abbott must leave Parliament. Peter Dutton should follow him. Australia no longer needsMore
Source: Tony Abbott And Peter Dutton Must Go, In Order To Save Realism And Civilisation – New Matilda
Australia’s fourth Prime Minister in five years, Abbott exhibited a feckless machismo, which often verged on eccentricity.
A severe anti-government swing in this Saturday’s Canning byelection could kick-start a fresh attempt to replace Tony Abbott with Malcolm Turnbull.
Source: Fairfax-Ipsos poll points to Coalition win in Canning but Tony Abbott may face snap challenge
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