Jambo12, you missed the point altogether; in metering out his mud to each of those people, Tony Abbott set his own benchmark and deserves to be treated with the same lack of respect and courtesy as he afforded to them. It has nothing to do with the views of those people at all.
That's why it's my opinion that his own post-sacking behaviour has now triggered a media feeding frenzy which will expose him to a world of enduring pain that the overwhelming majority of Australians think he so thoroughly deserves.