Dumping Abbott won't save the country. Only breaking the stranglehold of the IPA and its component megathieves will allow the country to even begin to make them pay their way and allow Australia to start work towards independence. It is fortunate that we had a government from 2007 that did govern for Australia when the international megathieves pulled the disastrous Global Financial Heist. Now we have the LNP impoverishing the already impoverished (laughingly calling it "austerity") to retropay the cost of averting the Heist and to transfer wealth to those who acquire it without personally creating a cent of it.

Abbott’s dispatching will be a gigantic sigh of relief from AU public, including big business which needs a stable and predictable atmosphere to operate. Business relies on people with money to spend, and not dumbed down with uncertainty.

Turnbull is a very likely character for the job, and could very well turn the tide in AU politics. Being a middle of the road operator, certainly makes more sense than that of Abbott’s radicalism.

Abbott is not going to go quietly, and likely to cause more discontent to feed his own ego. Power drunkenness is a powerful factor which overwhelms all other priorities.

Whatever the outcome we will be assured it will not include Abbott, or his advisor

579,

"Whatever the outcome we will be assured it will not include Abbott, or his advisor"

Yep, IMO there's "no way" the LNP will go to the 2016 election led by Abbott.

He'll dig in, and yesterday's NPC address was him throwing down the gauntlet to disaffected backbenchers.

I'm also of the opinion that as far as his leadership of the Libs is concerned, both in Opposition and in Govt, he and Credlin are a double act. The ongoing debacle, is down to the both of them and the machinations within the PMO.

If he goes - she goes too.

The need to clear out the PMO and really "reset" the agenda.

(From their point of view)

Dear Poirot,

Mr Abbott at his National Press Club talked
about "re-setting the Coalition's agenda"
to focus on jobs and families. That's what
the Coalition should have focused its image on
a year ago, when it prepared the 2014 budget.
Instead the savings measures in its budget were
unfair and hurt the most disadvantaged -
the unemployed and low-income families.
It's a case now of too little too late. They've
appeared deaf or indifferent to the concerns of
voters.

Newspaper commentators have pointed out -
"Decisions made in the kind of authoritarian and
arrogant manner demonstrated by both Mr Abbott in
recent months and Campbell Newman over the past 3 years
serve to erode the fragile trust between the government
and the people."

We know what happened to Mr Newman.

So a question for Abbott's supporters: how long does he have left?

A few years ago I read an article somewhere confidently predicting Kevin Rudd would challenge JG between Boxing Day and New Years Day, but it actually took a lot longer. Could the same happen this time?