Abbott is saying out loud all the things that Turnbull should be saying, but doesn't have the balls to do.
Abbott seems stronger now and more focussed on the issues than when he was PM.
Turnbull and the residing useless Libs will not be able to silence him so they should maybe listen because he is telling them what their policies should be. Won't be long and they won't have a chance of staying in power, and God help all of us and our electricity if Shorten and the hairy unwashed get in control.

Hahaha the Libs  still carrying on like its the 1950s. If we followed there logic on progress we'd still have a man with a red flag walking in front of cars and trains travelling no faster than 30mph

Cory is irrelevant. Reckon he'll be gone next time. And I don't want to reside on planet Bernadi anyway. As for Malcolm, silencing Tony the wrecker (thanks Don) he won't shut up, despite what he said about no whiteanting undermining, confident he thinks he has a chance at the big chair, again. Mal, will need to sleep with one eye open, the sharks are circling.

I sincerely hope that Tones comes back and finishes wreaking the Liberal Party, it would be all too funny.

I'm betting that Pyne will be demoted if only to keep the lunar right Tones supporters happy but it will only be a temporary fix. We seem doomed to have a half-buttock government drag itself out for as long as it possibly can... I guess Tones will challenge at some point soon if Malcolm keeps losing Newspolls?

The Mad Monk is certainly entertaining, but his real failing was the decision to remain in politics when the decent thing to do was to get out. Problem is - no Government would send him off to a senior diplomatic posting . . . .

And did you see Abbott on the news tonight, he thinks he's some kind of Churchillian hero of the Australian people; the only one who can rescue us from the nightmare of gay marriage. God help us if he really thinks that's the main issue.

I read an article recently about Jimmy Barnes visiting Elizabeth SA (his home town) and expressing alarm at the proliferation of booze, gambling and unemployment and wondering aloud if there was any plan to try and fix it. I have your answer here, Jimmy. NO. Nobody in Canberra gives a rat's about what's happening out there, they couldn't care less.

Sounds like a state issue.  So no one in the Labor Government in Adelaide gives a rat's about what is happening out there, and they couldn't care less.

And did you see Abbott on the news tonight, he thinks he's some kind of Churchillian hero of the Australian people; the only one who can rescue us from the nightmare of gay marriage. God help us if he really thinks that's the main issue.

I read an article recently about Jimmy Barnes visiting Elizabeth SA (his home town) and expressing alarm at the proliferation of booze, gambling and unemployment and wondering aloud if there was any plan to try and fix it. I have your answer here, Jimmy. NO. Nobody in Canberra gives a rat's about what's happening out there, they couldn't care less.

Sounds like a state issue.  So no one in the Labor Government in Adelaide gives a rat's about what is happening out there, and they couldn't care less.

The Financial Review is reporting this afternoon that Tones gave a speech at the Center for Independent Studies telling it like it is:

In an address to the Centre for Independent Studies, Mr Abbott has slammed the French submarines chosen by the government to replace the ageing Collins Class fleet, saying they will take too long to build and may not be up to the job.
He advocates in the short term a least, the acquisition or lease of a nuclear powered submarine from the United States and in the long term, possible a fleet of such vessels. Mr Abbott said Labor's support would be needed and he credited Labor under Bill Shorten for not playing politics on national security. He was "confident" Mr Shorten's Labor would give his idea "a fair hearing".

Seems as though all the pretending is over now and Tones is putting himself out there as the REAL leader. I think it's high time Tones finished the job of destroying the Liberal Party... they both deserve each other.

........but, on the other hand, the RAN cannot maintain or man half the relatively conventional fleet that they have now.

And did you see Abbott on the news tonight, he thinks he's some kind of Churchillian hero of the Australian people; the only one who can rescue us from the nightmare of gay marriage. God help us if he really thinks that's the main issue.

I read an article recently about Jimmy Barnes visiting Elizabeth SA (his home town) and expressing alarm at the proliferation of booze, gambling and unemployment and wondering aloud if there was any plan to try and fix it. I have your answer here, Jimmy. NO. Nobody in Canberra gives a rat's about what's happening out there, they couldn't care less.

Sounds like a state issue.  So no one in the Labor Government in Adelaide gives a rat's about what is happening out there, and they couldn't care less.

Jobs and growth would be a good way of alleviating such issues.

Jobs and growth were Turnbull's words.

So is it a state or Federal issue?

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Labor has been in power now for 15 years in South Australia and I see nothing but desolation.  Time to drain the swamp.

When Tones said a few days ago, that he is in no hurry to go anywhere from Parliament, I take that to mean, that he will try and destroy the Turnbull Govt by chucking in hand grenades every so often,
Kind Regards

Sky News is reporting this morning that Tones was rallying the troops telling them that they're letting themselves down by letting the party hierarchy do what they want to rank and file members (???). From Sky:

The Liberal party believes in free speech, yet when someone discusses ideas in the wrong way 'we expel them for god's sake', Mr Abbott said.
'This is just about the most illiberal thing any political party can do, and the Liberal Party in NSW is practising that day in and day out.'

Time to re-take the Liberal Party for the sake of those little people who never get heard, eh Tony?

Anyone with a super account or who pays tax, has a financial interest in the banks.

To quote the famous Bard, "The man grows madder by the hour, take him away"

Malcolm can't possibly let this thing drag on allowing it to remain the central issue - for the good of the nation they need to either get Abbott to leave parliament or maybe ask him to join Bernardi in their religious crusade. The Liberal Party falling apart while in government will not be in the national interest; nobody will win from that. We've already had several years of unstable government -

And what does Tony think he will gain from making a run for the big chair? Nobody in caucus will vote for him again - there's maybe a dozen MP's in the entire parliamentary party who would want him back but the rest of them quite sensibly recall the arrogance and inaction that came from the two years of his previous stewardship of the nation. He was a disaster and the public hated him.