Foxy,
yeah, drawing attention & talking is really doing a lot for people in need ! Plus getting top Dollar from us taxpayers !

SR,

It is telling that the only feeble counter you have to the decade long rampage of child abuse by a Greens federal candidate now charged for 3 offenses is a liberal candidate that was accused a year ago by a relative (probably wife) of child abuse and from which zero charges have arisen.

That Karel Solomon, also a Greens state candidate was charged for kiddie porn also trumps your innuendo.

As for Marcia Langton I can't be bothered to comment on obscure activist "academics". However, on Bishop and Abbot, both of whom have contributed greatly to Australian society and leave tremendous legacies, their awards are well deserved.

Individual,

You're spot on.

She didn't ride a bike and get paid for it, she didn't
volunteer to fight fires, she didn't sleep on the benches
of Parliament, she didn't have limo drivers drive her
around, she didn't have free air-travel or hotel
accommodation. In other words she wasn't as great as Tony
Abbott or Bronwyn Bishop who also got awards and were funded
by the taxpayers.

Foxy,
Is Langton of benefit to 'her' people ? I agree that our politicians are atrociously little value for the money they take off us & I put Langton into the same basket !
Many bureaucrats & indigenous also qualify for a place in that basket !

Shadow Minister,

I won't comment on Bronwyn Bishop's contribution to
Australian society, unless of course in your praise of her
you really mean to the Liberal Party. She says it all
every time she opens her mouth. Even her daughter finds
her an embarrassment.

However Tony Abbott's contribution?

Ben Pobjie, comedian and satirist sums Mr Abbott up so well:

"Abbott from the beginning of the Abbott regime, things
started to go sour, as the voting public began to suspect that
they had been the victims of an elaborate prank".

"Abbott was erratic, socially awkward, intolerant and
seemingly permanently just seconds away from snapping and
headbutting a public servant. His policies were frequently
disastrous, as he misread the public's willingness to vote
him into office as the expression of a nationwide desire to
exterminate the poor: whether medicine, education or
helicopters, the Abbott government seemed determined to make
everything as unaffordable as possible".

"To distract people from his unpopular policies, Abbott
adopted a strategy of convincing the entire country that
he had been drinking paint. To this end he decided that
awarding Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, a knighthood
would be a canny move".

"This clever gambit, which was insane in so many ways that
nobody could decide which one to focus one, momentarily
disoriented his enemies, but still there remained some
who believed the prime minster to be of sound enough mind
to merit a serious examination of his policies".

"These people were utterly flummoxed though, When Abbott
went on TV to eat a whole raw, unpeeled onion. This made
him the first Australian prime minister to publicly eat a
a whole onion, but the public found this a dubious
achievement at best. There was simply nowhere else to go".

"Tony Abbott had transcended politics and had entered the
realm of avant-garde conceptual performance art".

Foxy,
Yes, Abbott turned out to be real Goose, more suited to Labor than Liberal.
However, he hasn't left a fiscal mess as did all Labor PMs' !
On top of it all he had the very same problem as Morrison is facing, a Labor-heavy Public Service hellbent on filling their own pockets whist sabotaging the Govt's efforts to get back on track !