Neither Kevin Rudd nor Julia Gillard is our PM. Voters weighed up their performances and decided to change the guard.
Tony Abbott's Liberal colleagues installed him as our PM; thereby making him directly responsible for national security and together with the FM and others responsible for our international relations.
Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard had to deal with all the mayhem flowing from Wikileaks. They did so, and on their watch our international relations with nations including Indonesia improved significantly.
Upon h9is return as PM Rudd even hd to deal with the revealtions from Edward Snowden's leaks about spying by Australia on Indonesia. Yet again, he did so without matters getting out of hand and despite a very hostile Murdoch media.
Meanwhile Tony Abbott was shooting his mouth off about what he'd do as PM; stopping boats, buying boats, processing asylum seekers in Indonesia etc.
On Abbott's watch as Opposition Leader; nations including PNG, Indonesia and Malaysia were subjected to insulting judgments about their treatment of asylum seekers and refugees by the Coalition; thereby greatly exacerbating Gillard's attempts to develop a more effective regional solution to the management of asylum seekers and refugees.
Once Abbott became PM himself, Julie Bishop and Scott Morrison embarked on a media blitz to assert their demands that Indonesia fall in line and enable them to 'stop the boats'.
History already records, that didn't go down very well and Abbott's inept responses to Edward Snowden's latest leaks blew the cork off the bottle.
