Abbott is a madman, I reckon he is a very good chance of being mentally unstable. He promised not to be a disruption, then again he promised a lot of things didn't he. A complete set up to win an election, he has to be made accountable for his election propaganda, which was riddled with lies. It was to win at any cost. He sold every bit of flesh he had. For some reason he now thinks its his job to bring down a govt

Totally wrong as usual Paul.

All the Hassy types have already gone. The only reason the fool media & polls don't know it is because they only poll city phone numbers.

Abbott, or someone like him may, but only may, be able to bring us back, if only for the fun of seeing green & Doog type heads explode.

Tony Abbott once declared "There will be no wrecking,
no undermining and no sniping."

As far as I can remember there wasn't a time frame on
that pledge or any qualifying statements.
Mr Abbott was going to shut up, sit down and let the
Coalition Government get on with governance. This country
so badly needs to find some sort of stability.

Well we're now a very long way in from Mr Abbott's departing
statements and it is clear he's treating us again as a
newspaper article pointed out recently - as he did with
the re-introduction of the archaic Knights and Dames and the
ensuing Knighthood of Prince Philip - with utter contempt.

He is behaving like a petulant child as one correspondent
stated - angry at being kicked off the footy team, lobbying
verbal grenades and leering over the shoulders of the
Turnbull Government. Under the guise of his opinions or
unsolicited advice it is very hard to ignore the fact that the
man has not given up on his dreams of holding court in
Kirribilli House.

He needs to go before he does any more damage. He needs to do
it for the sake of the Party - if he has even an iota of
decency left. This has gone on for far too long and voters will
not support a disunified Party.

It should be the back-bencher and not the Prime Minister who
should quit if the Government is not big enough for both!

Yep there has not been a time over the last year that Tony has not shown his humanity after being stabbed in the back by Pyne, Bishop and Turnbull and other people acting like sleazes. There also has not been anytime over the last 10 years where the bile of Foxy, the ABC and other regressives have been poured it on this man.

Foxy,

Turnbull was advised right from when he became PM to give Abbott a cabinet position, as on the back bench TA was entirely free to speak his mind and in the cabinet, he would be a powerful weapon against labor spin. To expel TA would require that he broke the party rules, which to date he hasn't, and would also cost MT his majority and possibly giving the conservatives a lower house seat to go with their 2 Senate seats.

Given that it is widely believed that MT was the mole in cabinet leaking against Abbott, there isn't a whole lot of sympathy for him, and while most MPs don't want TA back as PM, the underlying support for him in the party is very strong.

All this in fighting is not good for the party, and the last thing the country needs is a labor government beholden to a corrupt union movement.

Shadow, looks like you are saying that both Turnbull and Abbott are stuffed! Time for an election. Let the people be the judge.