TheColonel, IMO Niki Savva has been very generous and restrained in labelling some of the opinionated commentators out there slapping Tony Abbott's back as 'assorted fogeys and losers'.
IMO opinionated commentators like Andrew Bolt and Alan Jones should at least be professional enough to preface their comments about Savva and Abbott with a disclosure statement about their close personal relationships with him:
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Tony Abbott's private function an affair for the conservative media faithful"
http://www.theage.com.au/federal-po...nservative-media-faithful-20131026-2w8wz.html
"... When entertaining at home Tony Abbott prefers like-minded company, if the guest list to his Saturday soiree is any guide. The Prime Minister's first gathering of the Australian media is an invitation-only affair of conservative columnists and broadcasters.
Many are disagreeable, but, happily, rarely so with the nation's 28th leader. Invited to dinner and drinks at Kirribilli House is a rollcall of Mr Abbott's strongest supporters: among them Andrew Bolt, Piers Akerman, Alan Jones, Janet Albrechtsen, Miranda Devine and Chris Kenny.
Daily Telegraph editor Paul Whittaker, whose paper backed Mr Abbott to the hilt, will be in attendance. News Corp editor Col Allan is believed to have flown back from New York in time for the intimate gathering of friends. ..."
http://www.theage.com.au/federal-po...oiree-has-the-right-stuff-20131025-2w7cz.html
