I would echo Foxy's question what did Mr Abbott actually achieve for the people of Australia? What he tried to achieve (and partially managed) was a massive shift of wealth from those who didn't have it to those who did, and from those who had personally created it to those who had personally merely acquired it - i.e. from them lifters to the leaners.

For those who sneer at Mr Turnbull, how about some actual detail of what, concretely, as leader he has done which they reckon he ought not to have done and left undone which they reckon he ought to have done?

As for Mr Rudd, what he did which he ought to have done was, alone among Western leaders, steer the calamity of the 2008 Global Financial Heist away from our country. What Ms Gillard did which she ought to have done (and nobody else could do) was create a government from those the voters had elected in 2010 and keep it functioning for the best part of a full term.

I suppose that we could find fault with each and every
politician if we looked closely enough.

Mr Abbott was famous for his repeal the "carbon tax."
But what did that actually achieve. Our total power
and gas bills did not fall as promised. For a start
the carbon tax is not the main reason for big power bills.
There are costs of the network for poles and wires.

As for stopping the boats? That too is not a record to
be proud of. The following link explains:

http://www.theage.com.au/comment/the-age-letters/heed-20150915-gjn4cs.html

The blatantly obvious of course,

Stopping the human trafficking that Labor and the greens started, rebuilt the live cattle trade that Labor stuffed up, and finalized 4 free trade agreements that improved Australia's trade and world status.

What did Dudd or Juliar achieve? other than human trafficking and debt?

cont'd ...

At least Mr Abbott was removed before he did any
serious damage to our nation.
Look at the damage he caused in Parliament with his
negativity. It could have been much worse.

Foxy,

It is a pity that Juliar wasn't removed before she did serious harm to Australia. One can only remember the bodies littering the seas, the debt and the destructive carbon tax lie.

Fox,

You have no hope at all of 'getting things into perspective' where you habitually do as you have done before.

You were obsessed with Tony Abbott even before he won the PM gig. You are not satisfied that he has suffered enough of a penalty in losing it. You will never be satisfied until he is silenced.

That is not healthy at all and so much for free speech, eh?

What excites you about MT is that he has recently dipped into the bucket of taxpayers' $$ to give millions to the NGOs and the multicultural industry that have been fattening leeches on the taxpayer since that fool Whitlam.

Tony Abbott stopped the boats. However in doing so he affected the NGOs, public service empires and lawyers who had grown fat sucking millions annually from the taxpayers. The gravy train ground almost to a halt, shucks.