By Peter Van Onselon in an extract in the Australian:"Abbott's...

By Peter Van Onselon in an extract in the Australian:

"Abbott's greatest weakness, whether he forms government or not, wasn't exposed during the campaign but it has been exposed now. It is his unbelievable policy costings. So bad are they that he spent the first week of negotiations finding any and every excuse not to allow Treasury to evaluate them. Yesterday he reluctantly agreed to a partial evaluation, which the independents would get to see, as long as it wasn't passed on to the government."

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