Abbott knifed himself!
The idiot like knighthood he gave to the grumpy old fool Phil was the last straw, his party, convinced he could not win an election, dumped him.
ABC even some who tell us they , do not read news papers, have no TV, listen to radio, have formed opinions based on what?
4 weeks from now the right of reality faces its test, Trump hero worshiped by some here, will he pass that test?
IF small L Liberals had control of the Australian Liberal party,and they are in great numbers in that party, My ALP would be hard pressed to beat them in the upcoming election.
However while ever truth is a victim when the right of reality pops its head up my party benefits from the other sides self inflicted wounds

runner,

The investigation into Trump has not yet closed.
We have to wait and see what will develop.

CM,

It was the Party that kicked Abbott out.
He walked out of the Party Room stony-faced
and would not talk to reporters.
He's been trying to claw his way back in ever since.

Belly,

Why do you write small 'l' liberals with a capital 'L' - that's a 'big' L to you?. The man you think is an "idiot" is a Rhodes scholar, and studied at Oxford. I guess you were looking in the mirror when you came up with "idiot". A man like Abbott being called an idiot by someone who is barely literate is really sad.

Talk about bizarre, headless chooks and out of control lefties. The chairman of the board sacks a dud managing director, now the loonies want the 'sackor' to be a 'sackee'. How much longer can the school yard that the ABC has become be allowed to have a billion dollars of our money each year as they become more dysfunctional by the day? They are even calling in has beens with boozers' noses to comment. They continue to whine about 'independence', when the only way to be independent is to pay your own way - not be a government department, run by public servants on the taxpayer dollar!

Now which party did that disgraceful abc employee called Ballard recently endorse? Oh what a surprise the socialist. What a sick mob. Drain the swamp!

And this from such a moral and religious person.

And no Russian told him to say that. ;-)