Been drinking vinegar again. Toxic Tony is having his own rhetoric come back at him. After months of bad mouthing, he got what he deserved.
You had best get to like the labor way, because there won't be any alternative.
Toxic Toni has had his day.

She was involved in the deposing of Beazley, then Crean, then Beazley, then Latham and then Rudd.

Looks like 4 men to me.

Graham wrote “Abbott was genuinely surprised by the attack, and allowed himself and his frontbench to be drawn into the controversy, distracting him from issues which long term might do him more good”.

I think the speech in some ways has let Abbott off the hook. I haven't found anyone who thinks his 'Dying of Shame' comment was unintentional. If one watches the recording he addresses the whole parliament while working up to the punch line, looks down briefly to make sure he was getting the wording right then stares directly at Gillard to deliver the line.

Any of us who have played contact sports, or for that matter any competitive sport, know how prevalent sledging can be. Australian cricketers have been amongst some of the most prolific employers of what can be pretty unsavoury tactics. The aim is simply to put someone off their game. Often there is no real hatred or malice just a desire to win and the practitioners are usually surprised when it isn't left on the field.

In Abbott's admittedly 'blokey' world the victim should have just sucked it up and got on with the game, perhaps to land a sly blow of their own later.

But in reality to have referenced, through the efforts of Alan Jones, Gillard's recently deceased father showed a side of him that is unpleasant, unthinking, and disturbingly self-centered.

Julia Gillard's speech and the focus on the issue of misogyny has taken much of the attention away from his comment. But when people start thinking about whether they want to see him as our prime minister this will be in the mix.