Abbott to "shirtfront" putan, page-50

Oconnem, please explain exactly what it is that you think Tony Abbott has achieved by blaming and bagging Vladimir Putin and Russia while simultaneously backing a regime itself known to have shot down civilian aircraft before. Then there's the matter of Abbott's very own news blockade from even our own personnel inside the Ukraine.

Thus far it seems that due to Abbott's outbursts that Australia has lost important trade with Russia and that Abbott has even become a force for uniting the Russian people behind Putin.