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It would appear that the judgement of Tony Abbott is being brought in to question.
re the Wink.
I see it as harmless.
The 4th Mrs Gumnut with much vehemence sees it otherwise, and self preservation being my primary politic, I raise it here.
I feel TA is a fit person to be PM.
What do others think.
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Tony was elected by the majority to fix the budget.
Bye Bye Tony, apparently you're a good bloke, however its over - gone in 8 or 10 weeks for sure.
The Noalition cannot win with TA, vote 1 MT.
Tony has to go. He can pull out as many rabbits as he likes over the next few days, weeks or months but it won't make any difference to the electorate. The sooner the LNP realises this the better.
Transgender broadcaster and columnist Catherine McGregor says her friend Tony Abbott has become “consumed” and “lost balance” since he was ousted as prime minister, as she discussed remarks he made last week calling on the government to cut immigration.
Ms McGregor told the ABC’s Q&A she advised Mr Abbott to stay out of the spotlight after he was ousted.
“I’ve known Tony for about 35 years,” she said. “I would say two things in his defence. One — he’s a great person of great magnanimity. He doesn’t hold grudges. I do think he’s lost balance on Malcolm Turnbull. I think he’s consumed by that and, sometimes, he’s not the best self that he’s capable of.
“All I’ve said to him — I’m not breaking a confidence when I say this, because I’ve had this discussion with other people close to him and people in the media and the political process — that I believe he erred in not really, basically, letting last year run its course. I was a sympathiser of his, but I said two things to him ... I sent him a text and I just nominated a couple of outlets I thought he should stay away from in the media — ‘Don’t go down the Trump road if you want to retain the Menzian centre-right tradition in Australian politics.’
“And I just said to him, ‘You should shut up. The guy who you should emulate is Keating. Keating tried to take Hawke down and, when it failed, he made the party come to him.’ I said, this bloke’s got a cloth ear, and that’s been revealed too.”
Ms McGregor said publicly in October last year it was “impossible“ to be friends with the former Prime Minister due to his position on same-sex marriage, but told the program on Monday night rumours of their falling out had been exaggerated.
Following Mr Abbott’s call for reduced immigration to ease population strains, the panel largely disagreed with the proposition but said “candid” conversation around the issue was necessary.
I follow Abbott on twitter and have never seen any evidence of Turnbull hate driving his narratives on policy. He's actually fairly consistent.
So now we have an ex army bloke who wants to be a women without the pinky bits that go with that, giving sage advice:
I wish the immigration proponents would give an economic justification of high immigration instead of playing the racism card every time cutting it is mentioned.
With whole industries disappearing and most of the rest being mechanised or automated in some way there just won't be the jobs available in future as there were in the past.
The LNP and Labor have conspired to ruin the education system by delivering an excess of university graduates who can't get a job, and a shortage of skilled trades that we have to import from OS.
Get the TAFES back in action and recognise that university is not for everyone, and we might have a chance of satisfying our own skill needs without a mass immigration program.
If you want ecomonic justification - it hides lack of general growth. More people = more demand.
As for Abbott - he uses other mediums than Twitter for comments. His radio interviews and on the spot quetions leaves many without doubt some of his barbs are directed at Mal.
I guess what I'm saying is he is consistent before and after.
Did he cut immigration himself when he was PM ?
Words from next leader of the opposition:
https://www.2gb.com/this-is-seriously-bad-policy-tony-abbott-savages-his-own-government/
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