I agree that Abbott, while an extremely effective leader of the opposition, was a very poor prime minister. But why is there no mention of Whitlam as one of Australia's worst ever PMs? I suspect the author chose his historians very carefully before asking them to nominate their choices of Australia's worst PMs!

There is no mention of Whitlam or the current dropkick, Albanese, because Mr. Bowden is a dead-set Leftist, with nothing better to do than vent his opinion, and taking three pages to do it.

No.

That title must go to Scum-Mo from marketing. The liar from the shire.

Who was the leader that won an election by telling lies. And was sacked by his voters in short time. His lies only lasted till the election. This is the man that said he would do anything to win an election, and went to England and said it felt like a homecoming. All sorts of grubs infiltrate Australia.

A better question would be which administration was the worst under which Prime Minister.
the Whitlam, Rudd & Albanese led would have to be the ones that caused most damage to this Nation mainly due their affiliation with Unions.
Coalition administrations fail because bureaucrats don't get changed with Govt as 95% of them are Labor orientated.

Oh definitely Tony Abbot !

He looked at his watch !

Unionism is lifeblood of au workers. The alternative is the plight of Oliver Twist. Sco mo had his foot on the brakes for 9 years and what did that do for us.
Our car industry should have been saved if it was not for an x pom that could not assimilate into Au life. Makes me wonder why was he here at all. Was his motive to disrupt and cause havoc. Good chance he was a foreign operative imposter.
US elections have chosen wisely. Big changes on how their elections were held. A decision on the night of counting shortens chances of manipulative foul play.

doog,
The Unions were the cause of industries failing in Australia & giving rise to an unrealistically large Public Service !

Idi. Some wise person once said Please explain.
The world gave China a chance at becoming a democratic state and what happens it consolidated communism. Now China has been driven back into degrading poverty. With little chance of ever recovering with there wealth and power they threw it in the face of democracy.
Millions of unfinished housing developments shows how not to run a country on pyramid schemes. China is now in a corner with nowhere to go.
Regime change is a realistic alternative as Jimping and Putin must realise Communism is not all good.

I think closing Australia's motor industry was a very smart move.
How could we have possibly produced a competitive electric car ?

Bezza,
The then Australia was capable but not the now Australia courtesy of the Unions/Labor/Green syndicate !

Beza How is anyone ever going to give an answer to your redundant question. We were never given a choice to compare were we.
There are persons that can not foresee, and there persons that do not want to foresee.
Your former god was not a real Australian and had interests else where.
You need to open your perifocal and realise what is wrong with you-self for such a statement.
The world is full of fraudulent persons so tread cautiously the only one that can protect you is yourself.

Doog, my reasons are that the size of the factories and the number of
them together with the labour costs sums it up so that anyone can see why.
Anyway, it will not be long before we would not be able to charge them
as they are pushed off the production line.
Just be realistic, we will be running our homes on solar cells and 200 watt/hour batteries and hoping the power comes back on so we can charge the damn thing !

Abbott needs a tap on the shoulder and a heads up on the ecosystem his workplace inhabits in Budapest at the Danube Institute, while he alleges that he supports Ukraine....if he wants to keep any reputation.

However the Danube Inst. is led by someone indirectly familiar with late white nationalist John Tanton (like many of Abbott's friends at Fox News), partnered with fossil fuel Atlas Koch flagship Heritage Foundation and described by Bill Kristol as anti-Ukraine.

Not only is the Hungarian Danube Inst. supported by foundation of PM 'mini Putin' Orban, it's anti-EU, anti-west, anti-liberal democracy and averts its gaze from local corruption; while Hungary is now allied with Russia, China and Iran.

Anglo conservatives thought they were using Hungary as a bridgehead or Trojan horse to split the EU, from within, but in the drivers' seats are copilot Orban and pilot Putin.

Well done Tones.