Great to see that Abbott still gets up the nose of the regressives. Australia is far better off with him having stopped the boats which left egg all over the face of every opponent and regressive. He scrapped the idiotic breathing tax. Turnbull has achieved nil except to waffle on and make the ABC women journalist become like lap dogs when interviewing him. I hope the fools who trashed Abbott in the Liberal party have woken up to themselves.

There is a certain delicious irony in Turnbull making the case against Abbott on the grounds, inter alia, that (a) he lacked a coherent economic argument and (b) that the polls were showing a likely Coalition loss.

Now seven months after the change of leader we Have (a) a lack of a coherent economic narrative, and (b) a leader and his party both sliding inexorably in a one way direction down.

What will be their next trick? Policy and principle seems beyond their grasp. Perhaps another spell on the Opposition benches will help them regain their focus. I am not holding my breath.