"It's being dubbed the fastest ever recovery by an opposition, and no wonder."
Easy answer to your confusion...
Sabotage stink-bombs left by the union-boss controlled socialists and planned to be detonated for maximum effect by a corrupt, complicit, leftist infiltrated media...
"Hard to see this government lasting a full term. Something has to happen. Sacking Abbott might save them."
More like 3 terms... I would imagine that the liberal party always have the option of playing the union-bosses game of confusion by playing musical-chairs-PM 2 weeks before the coming election in 3 years...
Maybe Tony Abbott should also follow the union-boss strategy of announcing the coming election date now, and move into campaign mode now...