SM,

You are so right!

All those people in that article were obviously deluded.

A bloke like our Tones is suited splendidly for high office - he possesses such depth of character that's it's difficult to believe he was such a blatant and offensive thug at uni.....

Now back to reality.

I've read myriad reminiscences of Abbott's thuggery from many different sources, SM.

They fit perfectly with the dishonest, deceptive, sloganeering dunderhead we've been saddled with for PM.

That you defend such a character speaks volumes : )

Poirot,

They are not deluded, they simply have no substance to what they say. You have a left whinge journalist asking left whinge ex activist students to recall what they read 3 decades previously in a far left whinge rag.

That is a whole new level of pathetic.

Yes, SM, I'm sure he was as meek and mild as the day he was born.

Bless his cotton socks....

Having destroyed Krudd and Juliar, and now Shorten, I would never call TA meek and mild. However, with the left whingers whipping themselves into a frenzy over a wink, one can be sure that everything that appears in Left whinge blogs is either incorrect or conflated beyond imagination.

Shadow, do you know if Pig Iron Bob Menzies, Hitler admirer and Liberal Party founder, ever met Eric's uncle Otto Nazi when he visited Nazi Germany in 1938.
I don't know why you are so down on Lee, she speaks highly of you.

Dear SM,

Actually you're quite wrong.

David Marr interviewed a great many people for
the Quarterly Essay - which by the way presents
significant contributions to the general debate. Each
issue contains a single essay written at a length of
about 25,000 words. It aims to present the widest
range of political, intellectual and cultural opinion.

Marr's essay on "Political Animal: The making of Tony
Abbott," includes many interviews from Mr Abbott's
university days - including the records of the SRC, the
Liberal Club, and witnesses like Barbara Ramjan,
amongst others. He also interviewed Mr Abbott himself.

Perhaps you should actually read the essay - so that you
know what you're talking about (for a nice change).