Raycom "Election campaigning is an Abbott strength. Unlike Malcolm, for a start he would have hammered Shorten’s infamous union links."

Why are Shorten's union background any different to any LNP members relationship to private/public corporations?

Turnbull was a part of the Macquarie Group "millionaire factory" and yet that is seen as somehow a job qualification?

you summed it up accurately Raycom while the regressives refuse the fact that Abbott votes went to Hanson not Labour.They are stuck in their false narrative which is why they throw tantrums when Brexit and Trump events catch them by surprise.

I am disappointed in Turnbull as I thought he may pull it off.
However things have changed in the world with Brexit, Trump, One Nation
and similar situations in various countries.
Maybe the wheel has turned and Tony Abbott might be a better fit with
the current world mood.

It was astonishing that Malcolm campaigned as if he had forgotten the reason for calling the double dissolution election – he gave little prominence to it.

On the other hand, Abbott would have made the most of the findings of the Royal Commission on union corruption, including evidence that Shorten had disadvantaged AWU members while negotiating on their behalf.