suggesting Abbott communicates better with Catholics?
Suseonline,
As per usual you're getting it all wrong by looking at things from the wrong angle with the wrong mentality. I'm saying that the situation will be different with a new leader who has a different approach to Abbott not Abbott with them.
It has absolutely & totally & utterly nothing to do with Abbott communicating better with a possible catholic leader of the largest muslim nation. It has everything to do with how Australia(ns) will be summed up by a different indonesian Government.
Australia is being judged by the australian morons in Bali behaving like rock apes. If Australians desire to be seen in a good light then they need to present themselves in a good light. The vast majority of decent Australians never go to Bali so the Indonesians don't get the opportunity to see decent Australians. All they have to judge us by are the morons invading Bali doped to the eyeballs & drunk out of their minds.

Individual, as usual you are generalising again by suggesting all Australians who have been to Bali are 'morons'.

Do you know ALL the people who have ever been to Bali?
Are you upset because you never had the opportunity to go to Bali?

You are the one who brought up the Catholic subject about Abbott, so don't get all huffy!

Suseonline,
Again, you're not thinking before hitting the keyboard or you're of such twisted character that you simply feel compelled to twist statements for the worse every time. I did not say all Australians. I stated that the Australians who behave badly, again, not all. It's the rock apes who are how many Balinese Indonesians view us by & who could blame them.
Anyhow, Abbott will turn out to be a far better diplomatic PM than that moron Lazarus was before him.

Hi Suseonline

Hang in there. Intelligent moderate commenters on OLO like you always have trouble from those with doctrinaire views on odd tangents.

Even if Abbott is following US orders in Australia's standoff against Indonesia Abbott needs to sort things out.

Regards

Pete

Hi Pete,

"Odd" hardly covers it, and "doctrinaire views" is surely a polite euphemism. I agree with the general sentiment you expressed to suseonline. One should always strive for an intelligent, calm and well informed discussion. Unfortunately the usual suspects, and we both know to whom I refer, seem incapable of maintaining such a discussion.

Hi James

Yeah "doctrinaire views" was indeed being polite. I was going to say "extremist" but I didn't want to get them started.

Cheers