One term wonders with no vision, no credible leadership and Rupert pulling the strings!
I smell a leadership spill.....
"Mr Murdoch is thought to be increasingly frustrated with the failure of the government in Canberra to effectively sell its reform agenda as successive opinion polls show it could yet be a one-term operation unless its ratings improve dramatically.
Mr Abbott's own judgment is also being questioned by colleagues.
Fairfax Media has learnt that Mr Abbott first raised the idea of resurrecting the knights and dames honour while he was leader of the opposition, but Ms Credlin and other advisers warned him against going through with it.
The reaction inside his office was that the idea was "f---ing stupid", according to a source.
A party source said if Mr Abbott was considering moving Ms Credlin on from his office he would inevitably face fresh accusations that he has a "problem with women".
"It would look terrible if he sacrifices a female adviser over a captain's pick," the source said.
But the source acknowledged the growing angst in government ranks at the performance of Mr Abbott's office in general and, specifically, Ms Credlin's at times "tyrannical" role at the centre of it. "Peta's list of enemies grows longer by the day and the week."
A state Liberal MP said Ms Credlin had a higher profile than most cabinet ministers, to the detriment of the federal party.
"I go to community meetings and people are talking about the Prime Minister's chief of staff," he said.
The MP said electors were telling him that Mr Abbott could only recover if he sacks Ms Credlin and demotes Joe Hockey as Treasurer in favour of Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
Senior Liberals complain Ms Credlin, as an unelected official, attends cabinet meetings and have advised Mr Abbott to name a cabinet secretary from the ranks of the backbench.
Fairfax Media has also been told Mr Murdoch had expressed a view "some time ago" that Mr Abbott needed to do two key things in order to survive: replace Mr Hockey as Treasurer with Social Services Minister Scott Morrison, and get rid of Ms Credlin.
The second of those demands has now been made publicly."
