Been a while since my last post but thought I might make a comment on Abbott.

Don't like the bloke, don't like his politics, his ethics, his bullying or his lies. However the last few months I have seen him on television he has looked really quite drawn and colourless.

There might be a few reasons for this, the strain of the job could be getting to him or the continued internal strife within his own party might be taking its toll. But it feels like there might be something else and I'm hoping it isn't medical in nature. I want him out of government at the next election, sooner if a Liberal party room ballot can arrange it, but I want it to be the will of the people or the will of the party that sees him off rather than ill health.

SteeleRedux,

It's called "the wheels falling off" syndrome.

No wonder Abbott is looking strained...everything he set in place to thump Labor with has turned on him. Karma has been winding up for this for a while - and now it's unleashed itself upon the hapless Abbott.

"Tony Abbott was far from Canberra on Wednesday morning, up to his ankles in bulldust, and wishing, without doubt, he could stay there.

Back in Parliament House, his ministers were pondering a confidential briefing note that instructed them to put their recent festival of leaks behind them and to tell anyone who asked that "our cabinet is functioning extremely well"."

But wait....

"The entire briefing note was promptly leaked to the press gallery. We are not making this up."

Lol!

http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/up-to-his-ankles-in-bulldust-tony-abbott-hoofs-it-leak-follows-20150819-gj2pdw.html#ixzz3jKunB94j

Tones has tried everything in the book in an attempt to fool the nation into believing he knows what he's doing at this juncture.

Ever since the IPA agenda was fulsomely stymied, he's been struggling to come up with something...anything...

And now cabinet is leaking like a sieve.

Not the sort of thing to bring a glow to one's cheeks.

I couldn't agree with you more there HASBEEN. Anyway, before the next federal election, I'm quite sure the Royal Commission into Union behaviour will have travelled a little further. Gathering up as it goes, the odd shred of Labour detritus as it ponders ever onward, with or without the present incumbent, as the Royal Commissioner ?

o sung wu,

I think TURC, whether or not it sticks with Heydon, has been pretty much comprehensively rendered legless by recent machinations.

It was always seen as a witch hunt - put in train by the Liberal apparatus to thump Labor.

Nice to see it all come back and bite Abbott on the arse.

Poirot, Abbott has told his ministers to stop taking leaks outside of the cabinet room, he is sick and tide of having to try and mop up the mess!
Shadow, unfortunately if Turnbull was to grab the top job he would have to sack three quarters of the useless cabinet, Hocking, Joyce, Morrison etc, etc by no means a complete list. At the last federal and state elections I preferenced the Liberal candidate second, as they were true liberal progressives and the ALP candidates were labor right conservatives. Nothing wrong with voting for a Liberal progressive in my book. Sometime after Menzies formed the Liberal Party as a progressive party the conservatives moved in and took over. Menzies was an enigma, a conservative on many issues, but liberal in other ways.

Oh is Abbott still PM. The mouth frothers had me believe he was gone last November then January then February.