Some quotes from the article below re Tony Abbott:
"On pet projects, he is a big spender out of tune with the party dries. In 1994, he wanted to give stay-at-home-mums a wage that, according to senior Liberal colleagues, was so generous it showed no cognisance of fiscal rectitude."
"The former treasurer Peter Costello was not impressed by Abbott's grasp of economics. ''Never one to be held back by the financial consequences of his decisions he had grandiose plans for public expenditure,'' Costello writes in his memoirs."
But I have to give Abbott credit, where credit is due:
"his secret role in underwriting the costs of legal action against One Nation's Pauline Hanson, "
