Thanks Tony, the big man strutting the world stage has overplayed it again. A civilian plane got shot down in a war zone, and all blame was heaped on Russia by our strutting cowboy, exposing Oz for special attention.

His outfit is running Australia into the ground, nationally and internationally. He is so bumbling and out of his depth and it looks like we'll have to suffer him for three years yet as he refuses to go to the DD election he beat up.

A plea to the LNP, at least do us the respect of changing leadership.

There is evidence that Russia had nothing to do with the downing of MH17 yet Abbott was the first to blame Russia. The Ukrainian troops will not let our investigators anywhere near the evidence. http://www.globalresearch.ca/support-mh17-truth-osce-monitors-identify-shrapnel-like-holes-indicating-shelling-no-firm-evidence-of-a-missile-attack/5394324

Luciferase,its a novel, a fiction..............sure reads like one the past 6 months.

I particularly like Joe Bidens son Hunter joining the board of the Ukrainian Gas Company....

Re Abbott......we are in it up to our ears as puppets of the US administration............Gillard and Rudd would have towed the line as well....muppet puppets..

Dear Luciferase,

The country that has killed 38 of our citizens is now
banning our food imports? What cheek! And of course
no thought is given to their own people who will be
deprived of these products. Our PM is right to take
such a strong stand in this matter. Absolutely!

Australia will find other markets.

My god Foxy you believe whatever MSM puts before you. The evidence to to the contrary.MH17 debris is full of bullet holes and thus was not shot down by a missile.

I believe it was a missile fired by morons. To blame Russia means to take sides in the Ukraine-Russian conflict. Is that what Australia is doing?

The past is murky, with the whimsical decisions of past Russian leaders intersecting with modern-day international law. Until a UN position is reached which is consistent with that Abbott and Bishop have expressed outside that forum, we leave ourselves exposed to retaliatory action. BTW, I'm starting to think Abbott/Bishop are dining out a bit much on our disgust. Ukraine has used the situation to its advantage too, making it as hard as has Russia to secure the crash site.

If Gillard had done this Rupert would have had her guts for garters, of course, like he did when cruelty to animals brought the Indonesian beef trade to a halt and cost farmers export dollars.

Foxy, just trying to look at this soberly. I feel so very bad for our fellow Australians going through so much (like the the poor, poor Perth parents of three beautiful children killed along with their grandfather. How can they ever rise again from the enormous pain they feel?).