You lot just do not get it! Labour took Australia from savings to debt. Wasted on things that the teachers union liked but the thinking adults did not!
The rest of the world never even give Australia a glance and who cares anyway. Last night there was the edifying site of an Iraki murderer planning a people smuggling operation from an Indonesian jail. What a joke! We just have to pander to the Indonesians but if the chips were down we would flog them in any conflict.
We all know that but we also know it is more sensible to be more diplomatic and always avoid conflict. I could not care less about Indonesian pollies upset when they are facing an election. Again "sorry" but not really!

Our prime minister is a prime galoot. Shouldn't be allowed to say anything. How long is this going to go on. Turnbull should never have been butchered.

Quite so, 579.

Mr Abbott is about as diplomatic as a banana.

He is our leader - although some of us realise that being a national leader requires more than the ability to mouth slogans ad nauseam - it also entails dealing with sensitive issues not necessarily related to one's incoming govt.

Take this view from the Indonesian President, for instance:

"President Yudhoyono said he deplored the statement of the Australian prime minister, which had underestimated the severity of the wiretapping of Indonesia and suggested Mr Abbott not been sufficiently contrite."

http://www.afr.com/p/national/sby_attacks_abbott_over_spying_response_XBROlQaP3nxv5IOpsrAmxH

Mr Abbott is a political buffoon which, unfortunately, makes it near impossible for him to deal with issues like this well.

He's more disposed to making things worse...especially if he attempts to feed Indonesia BS like he does with the Australian people.

Once again the coalition has to clean up the mess left by the Green Tea party.

Fortunately even the Indonesians recognise that this stuff up, like many left by Dudd, Juliar and Milne, but expect the adults to sort it out.

Noticably Carr let the cat out of the bag about the relations with Sri Lanka that the labor Whingers have been going on about, indicating that Labor was intending to do exactly the same.

Dear George,

My apologies, I was very tired yesterday.
Of course it was Bernard Shaw and not Bertrand
Russell who went to extra-ordinary lengths
and told the West that, "I did not see a single-under-
nourished person in Russia, young or old..."
Bernard Shaw had also felt able to say, - or was at
any rate so quoted in the Soviet press at the time -
that "in the USSR, unlike Britain, there was freedom of
religion."

This is all confirmed in Rober Conquest's book,
"The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the
Terror-Famine." A mind-blowing book that I can highly
recommend. It throws a flood of light on one of the
darkest events in modern history. It affected me greatly.

Pull the other one, SM.

Australia has a dud PM who needs to look up the words "diplomacy" and "contrite" in his dictionary.

Here's a translation of SBY's tweet this morning:

"I regret the Australian PM statement belittling the phone-tapping in Indonesia without feeling guilty."

It's Abbott's response that has upset him - more than the fact that spying occurs.

You don't get it do you?

Obama was contrite to Merkel when similar information came out.

Obama is a diplomat.

Abbott is a sloganeering fool.