Dear runner,

You're beginning to give us the impression that
you're threatened by women being in power.
Was your mum a strong disciplinarian and not
very loving? That would explain things. And are
you hen-pecked by your wife?

Just asking.

Foxy;

"One can always find excuses for one's actions."

Really! what excuses should Abbott find for spying on Indonesia, especially since it was Labor that did it.

I suppose his apology should be "I apologize for the stupid action of spying on you, by our previous cretinous PM who was suffering from paranoid delusions."

SM you show your deep concern in that post.
GONSKY is the news today.
Stranger than fiction? only for those who beleived promises made during the election.
Pyne, gee just think, I once said he was a promising new comer!
Well he is a true younger Liberal,if you wanted to trash younger Liberals by putting many things in to one person you would invent this Billy Goat.
The snear long ago becoming the normal face, the self centered bloated ego.
And in the end an inability to remember what of his own words are true and what are his feeble effort at needling.
Stranger than fiction but leaking voters and that is going to increase.

Belly,

I see you are suffering from labor induced amnesia again.

My recollection of the election promises is that the coalition agreed to retain the funding but committed to review the administration of the funding which is exactly what Pyne is doing now.

Shadow Minister,

Excuses, as such are part and parcel of diplomacy -
perhaps a better word would be "explanations."
And that is all that the Indonesian President asked
for - an explanation. Mr Abbott as PM could have
handled the matter more smoothly. BTW - if you check your
facts - spying under the Howard government was also part
and parcel of what was done by our secret service.
And the Labor Government merely continued this tradition.
They didn't blame their predessors for having done it though.

Foxy,

Now you are making excuses. Spying is one of the oldest professions, so Howard and everyone does it. Only the Cretinous Rudd labor government was caught. Now the same idiots that caused the problem are pontificating on how to solve it, just as they are doing for the labor debt problem and the labor boat problem.