P,

You may not like it, but as I said, it has more to do with its huge success with the Australian public, and your overworked partisanship.

DavidG,

Always amusing to read your rants from the far side.

I would guess that you are one of those socialist warriors that lives off welfare and is resentful that they cannot live like Palmer.

SM, David G,

Looks like the balloon has gone up between Murdoch and Palmer....

http://m.theaustralian.com.au/news/investigations/why-we-need-to-worry-about-the-real-clive-palmer/story-fn6tcxar-1226710922127?utm_source=The%20Australian&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&net_sub_uid=6227217

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-05/clive-palmer-threatens-to-sue-murdoch2c-claiming-wife-is-a-spy/4936982

Shadow Monster, no hissy fit, just intrigued. Abbott is clearly smart but he and his minders seem blind to the image he is portraying. There is nothing wrong with between being supported/accompanied by his daughters but why do they allow those creepy shots of him 'wearing' them. Holding hands with an adult daughter is just weird, he certainly wouldn't do it with a son. Like it or not, he does look like Hugh Heffner with a brace of bunnies. We can but hope the girls are allowed to get on with their lives before his first Cabinet meeting.

P,

I am sure that RM is shaking in his boots.

Candida,

From what I saw neither of them are dressed anything like bunnies. Perhaps you have a repressed childhood and would prefer the daughters to wear burqas and walk 10 paces behind him?

Abbott has previously not involved his daughters, but now both are in their 20s and have openly expressed their desire to support their father. And each of them standing by his side with a hand on his shoulder is well within the bounds of intimacy expected of a close family.

That this is "weird" is the product of political bias or a diseased mind.

The attacks on Abbott defy logic. He has also brought up very impressive daughters in terms of their persona. They seem intelligent and down to earth.

Give him a break and judge him on his policy record.

To David G.

I have been around long enough to see the pattern. Liberals win, balance the budget and build up a surplus. Labor wins and squanders the surplus, running up a huge dept. Liberal win and balance the budget an return us to the black. Labor wins and puts us back into the red.

If Labor wins, David G, then you had better start learning Chinese and start bowing towards Mecca, while it is still voluntary.