individual,

"It's all about you whereas Abbott is about the Nation but that is something that the integrity devoid aren't interested in."

Integrity?

Are you seriously suggesting that a govt which sets about to get itself elected by deceiving the electorate wholesale exudes integrity?

Our democracy depends on a certain modicum of honesty. This has been trashed by the Abbott govt.

People are marching because they realised fairly early on that they were duped big time by this mob. And not only deceived prior to the election, but by having salt rubbed into the wound every time Abbott or his cohorts rise in Parliament to say (somehow with a straight face) that they are "doing what they were elected to do".

You might relish a govt being elected on a platform of lies - most people resent it.

Now I wonder why people might choose twitter to vent their spleens?

Perhaps if this govt had chosen to stick to their pre-election spiel instead of doing the opposite, criticism on social media might have been less vehement.

Ant,

Obviously you don't know the difference between the newspaper The Telegraph, and a blog run by the telegraph on which anyone can post.

a govt which sets about to get itself elected by deceiving the electorate wholesale exudes integrity?
Poirot,
Change the record , go digital. What a tiring, baseless waffle. Things change, requirements change why even morons change, no need for lies because they aren't lies. They're change of circumstances, get over it. You got over the crap that the ALP dished up so get over what this Government is forced to do because of ALP stuff-ups.

Dear GrahamY,

You wrote;

“Julia's at it again, according to the Brisbane Times - trashing Australia's reputation. Except this time she's trying to make out that her prime ministership was marred by sexism.”

Oh come off it mate. That is a really difficult line to sustain when your own senator, retiring so free of the party machine, gets to tell it like it is.

“Reflecting on her career in Parliament - she retires at the end of June - Senator Boyce said she thought Julia Gillard's famous misogyny speech was ''powerful'' and, for Ms Gillard's purposes, ''a brilliant speech''. But she thought the former prime minister had used the wrong word to describe Mr Abbott. ''I think it would have been more accurate if she had called him a sexist,'' she said.

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/liberal-senator-sue-boyce-slams-abbott-sexism-20140621-3al85.html#ixzz35Q0pCrf7

I have remarked before I think Julia's sexism/misogyny speech probably saved Abbott from a far worse assessment. His use of 'dying of shame' just before it show what a nasty, hate filled, calculating, toad of a man he really is. That for me the defining moment and there is nothing that man could do to ever redeem himself in my eyes.

But hell that is just my opinion and I do know how all forgiving/blind people become when they are close to a political party as you are. The need to believe is very strong. That is why Senator Boyce's remarks are quite extraordinary.

redeem himself in my eyes.
SteeleRedux,
That's the first time I heard of Abbott having sad that about the died of shame remark.
Anyhow, if you feel so strongly of Abbott as a questionable character, why not let loose on Rudd & Gillard because they've been many times worse than what you accuse Abbott of.
Have a look at this it might open your eyes a fraction.
Let me know if can find that anywhere in the Leftie ranks. I'll give you 2 weeks to come up with it, good luck !

integrity |ɪnˈtɛgrɪti|
noun [ mass noun ]
1 the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles: a gentleman of complete integrity.
2 the state of being whole and undivided: upholding territorial integrity and national sovereignty.
• the condition of being unified or sound in construction: the structural integrity of the novel.
• internal consistency or lack of corruption in electronic data: [ as modifier ] : integrity checking.
ORIGIN late Middle English (in sense 2): from French intégrité or Latin integritas, from integer ‘intact’ (see integer). Compare with entirety,integral, and integrate.

SR,

Now that is pure bollocks!

The senator's quote also said "''But singling [Mr Abbott] out as a sexist was not reasonable either,'' she added, saying the Prime Minister was one of many ''subtle'' sexists in federal Parliament. Which as a feminist that includes just about every male in existence.

Juliar's speech was one devoid of facts but strong in rhetoric, and hypocrisy, and used to try and shield her speaker from the most outrageous sexist comments.