The Wit and Wisdom of Tony Abbott

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4. I think Abbott will self-destruct in a short time.

He doesn't seem to be capable of making coherent statements without a prepared script; whenever he tries, he jams his foot firmly in his mouth.

Thank goodness, putting Rudd back into the leadership at least saved a good number of seats, so there's a workable parliamentary party to regroup. And hopefully, new leadership will enable wounds to be healed.

I regret that in the meantime, the excellent NBN will be scrapped, and I fear dreadfully for the environment. Even one term of Abbott is enough to do serious damage.

And let's not talk about some of the weirdos being elected to the Senate! The system needs to be reformed – it's surreal that people who polled less than 1% of the vote are going to get a seat. It's a crazy system.