The media certainly is focusing on Tony panicking a bit.
A classic quote from the news papers today:
"Abbott's refusal to debate Rudd on the very things he had made such articles of faith against Julia Gillard was ''instructive'' to voters."
Now Menzies House can spin the above anyway they want but at the end of the day if the Opposition Leader (or his Team) had confidence in his own abilities he should be taking every opportunity to debate the enemy regardless of season, weather or terrain.
