Dunk, Julie Bishop had the courage to fulfil Tony Abbott's threat to shirt-front Vladimir Putin; Abbott failed to do anything of the kind. Bishop even broke the news to Abbott that he his performance as PM was so bad that Liberal MPs were about to defrock him.
Malcolm Turnbull defied Abbott's oppressive regime with its manic control structure, demonstrating far more bottle than Peter Costello ever mustered! He removed the most destructively negative PM in our history.
Julia Gillard was never going to die wondering while Kevin Rudd took out Kim Beasley and then Julia Gillard - not too bad for someone with a dodgy ticker [due to rheumatic fever in childhood].
After lasting just two years as PM, Abbott knocked himself out; not the sort you'd want in the trenches with you.
