bye Tone
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In memory of the political career of Tony Abbott 1994-2019 a fond tribute in three tweets:
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In memory of the political career of Tony Abbott 1994-2019 a fond tribute in three tweets:
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My observations on Twitter of the day after Australia elected its worst Prime Minister ever.
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My observations of the day Australia elected its worst Prime Minister ever.
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A selected storification of the week leading up to the day Australia elected its worst Prime Minister ever, together with an obituary of particular irony in its timing.
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Here we go again. It may be a couple of months earlier than expected, it may be for twice as much of the Senate as expected, but we're off to another federal election. And, for the third time running, the Prime Minister at this election is not the Prime Minister Australia had at the start of this term.
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Tony Abbott is no longer Prime Minister of Australia. After almost, but not quite, two years, he is gone.
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Great cartoon by David Pope in the Canberra Times of September 2 2014. Can also be viewed in this gallery.
The West, now backing: [ ]
<my cartoon in today's @canberratimes, gallery: http://t.co/0163VajLU3> pic.twitter.com/K4Mv5tDjnR
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History loves great speeches, and much of the time ignores their backstories. Prime Minister Julia Gillard gave a brilliant address to the House of Representatives on October 9, 2012 excoriating the current opposition leader Tony Abbott.
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Welcome to the premiere of Sky News Australia's kinder, gentler, interactive political talk show and weekly engineering tutorial all wrapped in one, "Building Bridges with Warren Truss".
This week's special guests:
Tony Abbott.
"we will hold them ferociously to account because that is what the Australian people will expect of us." *
Barnaby Joyce.
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Although the Murdoch empire is generally perceived as pursuing a pro-Liberal agenda in this election, this clearly evidences itself only in its loss-leading broadsheet "The Australian". As for the "Daily Telegraph", famously endorsed by Kristina Keneally as "the people's paper" a while back, there is only one over-riding agenda - to make money.