Why they all want to bash Abbott, page-34

Abbott was quite effective at dismantling policies implemented by the previous govt, there's no question about that.

But after that, the vacuum, which nature abhors.

I can't imagine how embarrassing it must have been for the Liberals to have the goofy pugilist Abbott as PM. They would have been the laughing stock for conservatives around the world.

Shirtfront Putin? Another unpeeled brown onion with that Prime Minister? Slip us a knighthood for Phil the Greek for whatever the services are that he's meant to provide. Tug forelock. Brown nose. Asserting black is white and up is down isn't a policy. Trashing science. Hey, big spender...

What about this one: dispatching Australian special forces to the crash site in Ukraine, where the MAS jet was downed by a rocket.

Luckily for us, his COS Peta Credlin was sharp as a tack and no doubt kept him in check as PM. Now that he's off the leash, we're getting an idea what he's really like.

I must thank on behalf of Australia the parliamentary Liberal Party for doing the job they knew just had to be done.