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Abbott already a dud : Comments

By Syd Hickman, published 17/1/2014

Let's begin the year with a big prediction. Tony Abbot will not lead the Coalition to the next election.

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It is such a relief to have a PM who isn't forever grandstanding overseas and throwing millions of Aussie Taxpayers' money away at the same time to get headlines in foreign newspapers for personal benefit.

Remember the ego trips of Kevin 707 and Julia Whatshername, the world's most prolific tourists who were so often absent abroad when disaster struck Australians?

Hopefully the era of the human headline leader, gigantic egos like Greens' Bob Brown and Labor's Kevin 707 and Julia Whatshername are gone. But they are often still in our faces, more is the pity.
Posted by onthebeach, Saturday, 18 January 2014 10:02:53 AM
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Don't worry Robert, Let me assure you, any Indonesian ships sent out to intercept any Oz ones, straying a little over the territorial waters boundary, will make damn sure they don't find them.

Just how dumb do you think the Indonesian military is? Tangle with the Ozzies, not bloody likely. Hell, unlike unarmed villagers & tribespeople, the Ozzies have guns & might shoot back.
Posted by Hasbeen, Saturday, 18 January 2014 10:09:52 AM
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What puzzles me is that the Navy does not have computer program running
that checks the GPS position against an internal chart of Indonesian waters.
If the ship approaches areas it is not supposed to enter it should blow an alarm.

If so I find it incredible that they do not have such a system.
Was there a solar burst around the time as that can stuff it up ?

If it was a technical failure it could be in any direction and could
easily be that it was a false indication that they were in Indonesian waters.
50 50 either way.
Posted by Bazz, Saturday, 18 January 2014 2:46:34 PM
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Stop the boats. Stop the boats. Stop the boats.

Abbott has called the Indonesians bluff.

He did not need their help to stop the boats. He has made them look powerless and then just pushed into their territory to show who has real power.

I guess the Indos now know we are not as p weak as Rudd and Gillard were.

I think the Indos will now take Tony and Julie much more seriously and they won't try to use us in their internal political games in future.

Tony and Julie have performed wonderfully well in fixing another of labor's stuff ups.
Posted by imajulianutter, Saturday, 18 January 2014 5:00:42 PM
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Yep imajulianutter, only another umpdeen dozen to go.
Posted by rehctub, Saturday, 18 January 2014 5:29:04 PM
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Yep and one of the pleasing aspects is their foreign minister Megamouth or what ever will no longer talk down to Julie and bore the f out of us with his sanctiomonious lectures that 'abc' played endlessly.

Well done Tony and Julie. To you stupid lefties, that is how foreign affairs is conducted by adults.
Posted by imajulianutter, Saturday, 18 January 2014 5:40:01 PM
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