realistically, what can abbott do?, page-46

During the election campaign, Tony was boasting that he had an experienced team to take over from Labor to govern the country and he asked us for our trust to give him and his team a go.

Well, that claim has turned out to be another big lie from Tony. Our relationship with Indonesia is in crisis, and that to a very large degree is due to Tony's inexperience on the international stage.

To those blind-faith Tony worshipers here who has been behaving as if Tony could do no wrong and ignorant to think Indonesia is not important to Australia's national security, they should have a good look at a map of our region and see where Indonesia is.

Most of our sea trades with the world, especially those with China and Japan, the cargoes have to pass through Indonesian waters.

With air travel, our planes need to flow over Indonesian airspace.

We as a nation do not have to kowtow to Indonesia, but unfortunately in his first visit to Indonesia as the prime minister he apologized to the Indonesians. The thing is, once you have apologize once, people expect Tony to apologize again. And, this is all Tony's own making.