poor tony abbott not happy about pay freeze, page-26

geez mol -a bit hard there.

He's the only one that would give the journo a quote, makes a few wise cracks, insists he isn't complaining, and he's crucified for thanks.

Apart from anything else the libs are looking bad because two or three others are about to leave, so he'd just compound the issue.

ps - In my previous post the $600,00 was a typo - it should have been $1,000,000 :)