Lyn,

May I suggest you move on. You obviously didn't vote for Abbot but over 50% of electors voted for him via their local candidates. You may not like him, his policies and how he has presented himself but that did not deter others. Sour grapes because he won/your candidate lost doesn't change this outcome.

Regards
DKit

ps I didn't vote for him either in either house but the reasons are relevant here. D.

Lyn,

You and other left whingers are victims of your own propaganda. You have been telling yourselves and anyone that will listen that TA is a nasty, spiteful, woman hating bigot, while anyone that has worked with him knows quite the opposite. The success of any endeavor is to know your enemy. Clearly labor didn't which is why they failed so spectacularly.

hopefully Tony will invest some money into getting some intelligent women to be journalist for the ABC/Fairfax and into prominent positions into uni's. The public are over feminist nearly all who swallow the gw fantasy and insist on having their little hateful rants.

In my own mind, I labelled him as Phoney Tony long ago. He is a man who has never been sure of who or what he is.

If he tries to be all things to all men and women he will up being nothing to anyone!

Tony has been promoted far beyond his level of competence, much like Julia and Kevin. On a broomstick, he is trying to fly too close to the sun.

Everyone knows where that ends!

Interesting article, however I'll leave the psychology to the experts, the real test is the nature and record of the Abbott government.

Abbott is a conservative politician and the leader of a political party that is essentially the representative of business and plutocracy, so any legislation that restricts the creation of profit has to be eliminated. Denial of anthropogenic climate climate is simply an example of the usual rear guard action to delay the inevitable.

"The defeated ALP and the minor senate parties should immediately pass this legislation: because I/we the new government have a clear mandate. As Chris Bowen has retorted, the ALP "now has a mandate to oppose"."

Indeed, we elect a parliament, not prime ministers.

Only time will tell how much damage Abbott will cause to the Australian economy and social democracy, my bet is that we will have our our version of Thatcher's UK. Then we'll see all those individualistic, unemployed small entrepreneurs come whining to the "nanny state" for help. Of course they will turn back to Labor.

Chris Bowen has retorted, the ALP "now has a mandate to oppose"."
mac,
That would be ok if they opposed nonsense but they don't do they . They promote nonsense & incompetence & oppose sense & competence. At least that's what they've been doing since Goaf.